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This volume provides a comprehensive account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research.
Sommario
Introduction
1. The Figures of the Plane of Expression
2. The Plane of Content: Figures and Conceptual Conflict
3. A Typology of Conflicts: Formal, Conceptual and Textual Conflicts
4. The Figure of Contradiction: Oxymoron
5. Figures of Conceptual Conflict: Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche
6. Metaphor
7. Metaphor and Metonymy Between Conflict and Consistent Thought
8. Figures of Textual Conflict
9. Figures, Meanings and Messages
10. Functions, Instrumentality and Creativity: The Challenge of Figurative Speech to Functional Linguistic Description
Info autore
Michele Prandi is Professor of General Linguistics and Head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Genoa, Italy.
Riassunto
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research.
