Colouring Meaning Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, "Colouring Meaning" describes how the meanings of
established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in
language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation,
through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey
through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both
mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as
corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed
at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of
metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.
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