Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.
List of Illustrations -- "I asked the falcon on my forearm" -- Horizontal iconicity -- Substitutive depiction -- Iconic brain #1 -- Iconic brain #2 -- Metaphorical brain -- LIKE -- FILE CABINET simile -- TRAIN simile -- ASL "cartoon" simile segment -- THREE-O'CLOCK -- COFFEE -- PRESIDENT -- DRIVE -- Cumulative metaphtonymy -- Spatialization mapping -- KNOWLEDGEABLE -- KNOWLEDGE-STORE -- Spatial orientations -- IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE MANIPULATED -- Manipulation of thoughts -- Metaphorical and literal classifiers -- IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE GRASPED -- "Pool-ideas-into-book."
Conventional and unconventional RELEASE -- Acknowledgments -- List of Typographical Treatments -- Introduction -- What Is a Metaphor? -- Removing the Shroud of Iconicity -- An Ethnographic Approach to Signed Language Data Collection -- Reviewing the Tropes in American Sign Language -- Metaphorical Mapping in American Sign Language -- Crossing a Metaphorical Ocean -- Two Dogs and a Metaphorical Chain -- References -- Index.
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE CAREFULLY DISCRIMINATED/ SELECTED -- Discriminating and selecting series -- IDEAS IN EXISTENCE ARE STRAIGHT -- Mappings -- IDEA-DISAPPEAR-PERMANENT -- THINK-PENETRATE -- "Plural-thoughts-stream-from-head" -- PUZZLED -- *INVENT -- IDEAS ARE OBJECTS -- A frozen sign -- Prototype GIVE1 -- Handshape variations used in the giving frame -- GIVE2 -- LSF money-related signs -- GIVE2-concede -- Social constraint = Physical constraint -- Involuntary social unity = Involuntary physical connectedness -- Negative social unit = Negative physical unit.