To conclude, the edited volume <i>Figurative Thought and Language in Action</i> showcases the latest research into figuration in Cognitive Linguistics across different methodologies, disciplines, and cultures. ... We fully recommend this volume to both novices and established scholars in the field of figurative language research either as a ladder to further their research or as a reference to refresh and deepen their insights into pertinent figuration research.

- Kun Yang, Southwest University, China, in Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023),

This is an exciting new book on figurativity in language and thought. The authors take up some of the most fundamental issues concerning metaphor, metonymy, blending, irony in cognitive linguistics, such as the nature and definition of metaphor and metonymy, the interplay between figurativity and grammar, the processing of irony, embodiment and metaphoricity, the social dimensions of metaphor use, to name just a few. In reading the book, we gain a fresh understanding of what figurativity really involves, how it works, and what makes it important

- Zoltán Kövecses,