books.google.com - This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. In order to do so, we have regarded each trope as a cognitive model, and observed that the various ICMs that resulted from...http://books.google.com/books/about/Understanding_Tropes.html?id=_XLTlleG_twC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareUnderstanding Tropes