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    Book SynopsisThe Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity provides a roadmap to navigate the recent findings and cutting-edge research conducted around the world on metaphor, focusing on the following four themes: Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity, Metaphor and Cognition, Metaphor and Communication, and Metaphor and Creativity.The research presented in this book employs a variety of empirical methods, ranging from neuroimaging to corpus analyses and from behavioral experimentation to computational modeling. Divided into four parts, it offers an array of pedagogical material including activities at the ends of the chapters to help the reader to consolidate the notions discussed in the chapter.This is a useful resource for students, researchers, and scholars of linguistics, communication, anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science looking to learn about figurative language and creativity.Trade ReviewThis book is a real tour de force. It provides an excellent, detailed and thought-provoking account of how and why metaphor use varies across different speakers and across languages. It provides interesting insights into the nature of creative metaphor and the relationship it has with creative thinking more generally. A must-read for metaphor researchers and students.Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I - Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity Chapter 1: Metaphoric expressions around the world: Variability and motivations 1.1 Key aspects and open questions: types of metaphoric expressions 1.2. Research directions: The motivations for metaphor variability 1.3 Metaphor variability applied: The interesting case of emotion-color associations 1.4 Summary 1.5 Activities Chapter 2: Conceptual metaphors around the world: Variability and motivations 2.1. Key aspects and open questions: The universality of metaphor 2.2 Research directions: How language drives thought 2.3. Metaphor variability applied: Building cross-linguistic repositories 2.4 Summary 2.5 Activities PART II - Metaphor and Cognition Chapter 3: Meaning variability: Literal and metaphorical meanings3.1 Key aspects and open questions: On the status of literal vs. metaphorical meaning 3.2 Research directions: Processing literal vs. metaphorical meaning 3.3 Metaphor processing applied: Understanding literal vs. metaphorical meaning 3.4 Summary3.5 ActivitiesChapter 4: Speakers’ variability: First- vs. second-language speakers processing metaphors4.1 Key aspects and open questions: Metaphorical competence in L1 and L2/LS4.2 Research directions: From the classroom to the lab4.3 Metaphor processing applied: L2 vs. L1 speakers use of conventional metaphors4.4 Summary4.5 ActivitiesPART III – Metaphor and Communication Chapter 5: Metaphor variability in monomodal and multimodal communication 5.1 Key aspects and open questions: Genres and modes of metaphor expression 5.2 Research directions: The interpretation of metaphors expressed beyond language 5.3 Metaphor variability across modes applied: Tools for metaphor identification and analysis in still and moving images 5.4 Summary 5.5 Activities Chapter 6: Metaphor in verbal vs. visual communication6.1 Key aspects and open questions: Metaphoric pictorial expressions and conceptual metaphors 6.2 Research directions: On the role of iconicity in constructing metaphors in different semiotic systems 6.3 Metaphor variability across modes applied: on the deliberateness of metaphors expressed beyond language6.4 Summary6.5 ActivitiesPART IV - Metaphor and Creativity Chapter 7: Creativity and metaphorical thinking and talking7.1 Key aspects and open questions: Creative thinking7.2 Research directions: Linguistic creativity and metaphor7.3 Variability in creative metaphor applied: mixing idiomatic expressions and novel idioms7.4 Summary7.5 ActivitiesChapter 8: Different ways to be creative with metaphors in language 8.1 Key aspects and open questions: Degrees of creativity8.2 Research directions: The effect of creative metaphor8.3 Variability in creative metaphor applied: how different groups of speakers comprehend different types of creative metaphoric expressions8.4 Summary8.5 ActivitiesConclusion

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    This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communication in which researchers question their own power in the research process. The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural communication, dialogue, participation, and responsibility among young people in these settings and those who may be marginalised from them. The collection also highlights the reflexive accounts of researchers working in a transnational, interdisciplinary, and multilingual research network a

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    In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants' polycentric identities, imaginations, ideologies, and orientations to home and host countries through the notion of chronotope. The book focuses on the authors' ethnographically situated research with two migrant populations Iranians and Uzbeks in the United States to highlight the institutional constraints and individual subjectivities involved in transnational mobility. The authors provide a model for how the notion of cultural chronotope can be applied to the study of language and migration at multiple scale levels, and they showcase a coherent picture of the ways in which chronotopes organize various aspects of migrant life.This book is a critical contribution to the conversation surrounding the sociocultural-linguistic uses of the chronotope, demonstrating its applicability not only to theorizing migration but also to theorizing lang

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