Figurative Thought and Figurative Language

Abstract

(From the chapter discuss some of the experimental evidence on how common ground provides the context for people's fluency with figurative speech illustrate how our ability to conceptualize experience in figurative terms also motivates why people use and understand figurative speech so effortlessly illustrate some of the emerging connections between figurative thought and everyday language does figurative language violate communicative norms metaphor idioms metonymy colloquial tautologies indirect speech acts irony/sarcasm oxymora