Book contents
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Figurativeness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel 2312 (Robinson, 2012), one of the main characters, Swan, who is mourning the death of her grandmother, maintains an ongoing testy relationship with her head-implanted quantum computer, Pauline – the two often arguing about many things, including rhetorical devices.
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- How Language Makes MeaningEmbodiment and Conjoined Antonymy, pp. 90 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019