On marginal figures again
Online Workshop proposal
September 28, 2024
Organizer: Angeliki Athanasiadou (angath@enl.auth.gr)
Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
This workshop continues a discussion that began in a theme session at FTL 6, 2022, entitled “On the margins of figurative thought and language”; some of these papers later appeared in a special issue of Lingua (2023-24). In both the theme session and the special issue, it was established that marginal figures are pervasive in thought and language, as are mainstream figures such as metaphor, metonymy and irony. In particular, it was emphasized that forms of language use such as allegory, antonomasia, euphemism, hypallage, litotes, oxymoron, paragon, tautology, zeugma, and others should be foregrounded as significant figures, and not be viewed as marginal rhetorical devices. Moreover, the conceptual structure of such figures as well as their pragmatic properties should be clearly determined through carefully constructed analyses...
