TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bagasheva,Aleksandra
AU  - Hristov,Bozhil
AU  - Tincheva,Nelly
TI  - Figurativity and human ecology
T2  - Figurative thought and language (FTL),
SN  - 9789027211644
AV  - GF21 .F54 2022
U1  - 304.2 23/eng20221103
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Figures of speech
KW  - Cognitive grammar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Figurativity has attracted scholars' attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its perceived or imagined environment co-function as a system. The volume sees figurativity not only as embedded in an environment but also as a way of acting within that environment. It places figurativity within an ecological context, and approaches it as a phenomenon which cuts across bodily, psychological, linguistic, social, cultural and natural environments. Figurativity and Human Ecology will appeal to those interested in the analysis of the all-encompassing creativity of the human mind and in the methodological difficulties associated with the study of cognition"--
ER  -