Abstract

Colston’s study of figurative language use from a pragmatic perspective comprises six chapters of 40 to 50 pages each, apart from the introduction of 13 pages (thus a total of 230 pages) plus a very detailed contents, 7 pages of endnotes, 23 pages of references as well as a useful index of 3 pages. Colston starts out from the following understanding of language production and use: Using Figurative Language was born out of the idea that accounts of language production, use, comprehension, stru...

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