How language makes meaning : beyond the embodiment revolution /

Colston, Herbert L.,

How language makes meaning : beyond the embodiment revolution / Herbert L. Colston. - xix, 281 p. ; 23cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on examples -- 1. The coin toss -- 2. Deviance -- 3. Omission -- 4. Imprecision -- 5. Indirectness -- 6. Figurativeness -- 7. Language play -- 8. THE social media -- 9. The art of language -- 10. The end game -- Epilogue: A clearing revealing an eclipse -- References -- Index.

9781108421652

2019016377


Semantics.
Language and logic.
Figures of speech.
Sociolinguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Language and languages.

401.43 / C67 2019