Machine generated contents note: pt. I Figuration and grammar -- ch. 1 Exploiting wh-questions for expressive purposes / Linda L. Thornburg -- ch. 2 Construing and constructing hyperbole / Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza -- ch. 3 How to do things with metonymy in discourse / Annalisa Baicchi -- ch. 4 Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek / Evgenia Vassilaki -- ch. 5 How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective / Rita Brdar-Szabo -- ch. 6 If-clauses and their figurative basis / Angeliki Athanasiadou -- pt. II Figuration and the lexicon -- ch. 7 hand in figurative thought and language / Ad Foolen -- ch. 8 Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian / Katarina Rasulic -- ch. 9 Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case of completion is Up and the polysemy of shang in Chinese / Wei-lun Lu -- pt. III Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective -- ch. 10 Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry" builders / Ioannis Veloudis -- ch. 11 Pragmatic effects in blended figures: The case of metaphtonymy / Herbert L. Colston -- ch. 12 psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors / Emanuel Bylund
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