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This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances people produce figurative expression and how it is moulded by their aims. By focusing on production, the intention is to help stimulate more academic research on it and redress historically lower levels of published work on generation than on understanding of figurative expression. The contributions stretch across various academic disciplines-mainly psychology, cognitive linguistics and applied linguistics, but with a representation also of philosophy and artificial intelligence-and across different types of endeavour-theoretical investigation and model building, experimental studies, and applications focussed work (for instance, figurative expression in product design and online support groups). There is also a wide-ranging introductory chapter that touches on areas outside the scope of the contributed articles and discusses difficult issues such as a complex interplay of production and understanding.

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To conclude, this volume is a truly necessary resource for anyone interested in figurative language, and in particular, its production. Since the research on figurative expressions has been overwhelmingly focused on its comprehension, rather than on its production, this volume fills a substantial gap in the literature by uniting interdisciplinary approaches which use a wide variety of methods and suggest possible methodological obstacles in metaphor production studies. There is no doubt that this book will directly inspire impactful future research on metaphor production. -- Ana Werkmann Horvat, University of Osijek, Journal of Pragmatics 184 (2021)

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