Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

This chapter accounts for the different outcomes resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational cognitive models ( scenarios ). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s (2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory types. It is our contention that the kind of scenario involved constrains the inferential mechanisms activated at the pragmatic levels, which are supported by metonymic activity i