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Record W4415615940 · doi:10.1075/ftl.19.01col

The big figurative picture

2025· book-chapter· en· W4415615940 on OpenAlexaff
Herbert L. Colston

Bibliographic record

VenueFigurative thought and language · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiteral and figurative languageMeaning (existential)Deconstruction (building)WritHyperboleMetaphor

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter provides a deconstruction of the structure and functioning of a dozen different types of figurative language (i.e., including the number of domains invoked, what those domains are, what is done with those domains, and which main pragmatic effects ensue). Several revelations made possible by such a deconstruction are then discussed (e.g., why we have the range of figures we do, why some are more prevalent than others, why a few are the most prevalent, etc.). And a new model of figurative language writ large is provided — that of a person manually manipulating individual or pairs, usually, of objects (i.e., figurative domains) in joint attention with one or more other people. How all of this domain manipulation activity gives rise to figurative meaning, and how this figurative meaning further reveals the bed-rock social functioning of figurative language (i.e., figurative language is not just leveraging additional meaning, it is more akin to gift-giving) is provided at the end of the chapter.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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