{"pk":4086,"title":"Figurative Language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Figurative Language is a traditional rhetorical style, which refers to a group of diverse tropes and uses of words describing pictorial or graphical objects in a non-literal way (Dancygier and Sweetser 2014; Colston 2015). Figurative language acts by contrast to other non-figurative language, just as a metaphorical word acts by contrast when used together with other non-metaphorical words (Ricoeur 2003: 161–162). Genette (1966: 205–221) reports that the contrast between figurative and non-figurative is that of a real language to a virtual one, and that the content depends totally on the speaker’s and listener’s own perceptions. In general, when necessary, all kinds of languages can be used in a figurative sense. Figurative expressions refer to the similarities of on object’s shape, colour, feature or function.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Arts and Humanities"}],"section":"Language, Text and Writing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q57k4fb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shih-Wei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hsu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nankai University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-04-08T20:58:53Z","date_accepted":"2008-04-08T20:58:53Z","date_published":"2023-05-15T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4086/galley/2616/download/"}]}