TY - BOOK ID - 119239958 TI - Slowing metaphor down : elaborating deliberate metaphor theory PY - 2023 SN - 9789027249777 9789027213853 PB - Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Metaphor. KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style KW - Parabole KW - Figures of speech KW - Reification KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119239958 AB - "If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But this does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. It does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously been acknowledged. We can even offer resistance to metaphor. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) claims that there is an essential processing difference between non-deliberate and deliberate metaphor use which can explain all this. This book is the first full account of the DMT model for metaphor comprehension. It presents explicit conceptualization and formal operationalization, and is based on a well-known cognitive-psychological model for all utterance comprehension in discourse. The original three-dimensional model of DMT is here refined into a four-dimensional model, which produces new research questions and discoveries about the use of metaphor. The book brings together numerous cognitive-scientific insights into metaphor. It has a high degree of interdisciplinary accessibility to all students of metaphor, whether master students, PhDs, post docs, or established academics"-- ER -