Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at M'unchen, 2008.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

1. On taking metaphor literally -- 2. Metaphor and cognitive stucture -- 3. Understanding literary metaphors -- 4. Metaphor as synergy -- 5. Friedrich Nietzsche

During L2 vocabulary instruction, figurative language frustrates even highly proficient users who find it difficult to cope with non-literal expressions, such a

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoke