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figure of speech
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Shultz, and its impact on the later theories of verbal humour proposed by Raskin and Attardo (SSTH and GTVH); Amos Tversky and Andrew Ortony with their ideas of the salience, imbalance, asymmetricity and irreversibility of metaphors and similes; Tourangeau and Sternberg with their theory of the domain-related aptness of metaphors; the main clusters of problems concerning figurative speech (particularly idioms) in contemporary psycholinguistics.
On the similarity and distinguishability of humour and figurative ... by Krikmann, Arvo / Trames
This is not a slippage in meaning, but rather amplification, making use of what the rhetoricians called figurative speech, allegorical and metonymical in its forms.
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State by Dempsey, Charles / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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