ABSTRACT
As an integral part of everyday communication, figurative language is a core topic in the agenda of neurosemiotics. To understand figurative uses of language, a pragmatic/neuropragmatic approach is needed, focused on the use of language in context. This chapter addresses the issue, with emphasis on the neural correlates and time course of metaphor processing, including the role of embodied simulation. As a corollary, a neurosemiotic account will be proposed of the process of figurative meaning construction, based on the distinction between lexical concepts and meaning.
