A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and stud

An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communicat

Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from a

This comprehensive collection of chapters is written by leading researchers in psycholinguistics from a wide array of subfields.

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought.