This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on th

The volume focuses on the interaction between figurative language, embodiment, and society and culture from various theoretical and applied perspectives and met

This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness fro

Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other