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Métonymies, anacoluthes, oxymorons, euphémismes, litotes, métaphores ... L'étude des figures de style permet de mieux comprendre le sens et la forme des énoncés, de déceler certains codages et travestissements conventionnels de l'expression. Elle a un large champ d'application, qui va de la rhétorique à la poésie et la littérature en passant par l'étymologie, la grammaire, la psychologie du langage ou encore la communication. Cet ouvrage propose une classification originale, claire et logique, illustrée par des exemples tirés d'œuvres littéraires, du journalisme, du discours politique, du langage courant, ou inventés par l'auteur pour présenter et expliquer les principales figures de style.

Figures of speech.

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Métonymies, anacoluthes, oxymorons, euphémismes, litotes, métaphores... L'étude des figures de style permet de mieux comprendre le sens et la forme des énoncés, de déceler certains codages et travestissements conventionnels de l'expression. Elle a un large champ d'application, qui va de la rhétorique à la poésie et la littérature en passant par l'étymologie, la grammaire, la psychologie du langage ou encore la communication. Cet ouvrage propose une classification originale, claire et logique, illustrée par des exemples tirés d'oeuvres littéraires, du journalisme, du discours politique, du langage courant, ou inventés par l'auteur pour présenter et expliquer les principales figures de style.

Literary style --- French language--Style --- French language--Figures of speech --- Figures of speech --- Figures de rhétorique --- French language

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full-length figures --- Rubens, Peter Paul

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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"--

Figures of speech. --- Metaphor. --- Cognitive grammar.

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The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawa’s career, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2006. This new edition features an expanded collection of essays and a detailed illustrated chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. Beginning with her earliest works—drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while she was studying at Black Mountain College—this beautiful volume traces Asawa’s flourishing career in San Francisco and her trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized internationally for her innovative wire sculptures, public commissions, and activism on behalf of public arts education. 

Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, especially its capacity to balance open and closed forms, Asawa invented a powerful vocabulary that contributed a unique perspective to the field of twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Working in a variety of nontraditional media, Asawa performed a series of remarkable metamorphoses, leading viewers into a deeper awareness of natural forms by revealing their structural properties. Through her art, Asawa transfigured the commonplace into metaphors for life processes themselves. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa establishes the importance of Asawa’s work within a larger cultural context of artists who redefined art as a way of thinking and acting in the world, rather than as merely a stylistic practice. 

This updated edition includes a new introduction and more than fifty new images, as well as original essays that reflect on the impact of American political history on Asawa's artistic vision, her experience with printmaking, and her friendship with photographer Imogen Cunningham. Contributors include Susan Ehrens, Mary Emma Harris, Karin Higa, Jacqueline Hoefer, Emily K. Doman Jennings, Paul J. Karlstrom, John Kreidler, Susan Stauter, Colleen Terry, and Sally B. Woodbridge.

Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF).

sculpture [visual works] --- spheres [geometric figures] --- spirals [geometric figures] --- fountains --- wire --- Asawa, Ruth