What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity

Author:   Herbert L. Colston (University of Alberta)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   19
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9789027224248


Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
Format:   Hardback
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What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity


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This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current scope of figurative theorizing. The works presented here investigate a wider array of figures than the typically-studied tropes of metaphor, irony, and metonymy, and they address broad issues such as figurativity writ large (what figurativity actually is and does, including how embodied it is), multimodality, contiguity of figurative forms, and furthering our consideration of the ingredients of irony. It should appeal to any scholar interested in figurativity in all its expansive guises.

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Author:   Herbert L. Colston (University of Alberta)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   19
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789027224248


ISBN 10:   9027224242
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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