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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience, irony's impact (both personal and in social life), irony in linguistic communication, irony and affe...

This volume provides readers with a broad overview of the different ways that irony emerges in human life, within interpersonal communication, instances of situational irony, literature and artistic creations. It emphasizes the importance of irony in ordinary thought, language, and communication.

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The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated.

This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people's experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

Assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought.

A distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.

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Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

In this book, a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.

This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people's experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts.

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