Metonymy And Pragmatic Inferencing

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253552

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Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing by Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg Pdf

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the "7th International Pragmatics Conference" held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars working in a pragmatic framework. Topics include the metonymic basis of explicature and implicature, the role of metonymically-based inferences in speech act and discourse interpretation, the pragmatic meaning of grammatical constructions, the impact of metonymic mappings on and their interaction with grammatical structure, the role of metonymic inferencing and implicature in linguistic change, and the comparison of metonymic principles across languages and different cultural settings.

Author : Beatrice Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123135555

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Referential Metonymy by Beatrice Warren Pdf

Author : Charles Denroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317608967

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Metonymy and Language by Charles Denroche Pdf

Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy as key to understanding why language is so ‘fit for purpose’ and how it achieves such great subtlety and flexibility. This study develops the notion of ‘metonymic competence’ and demonstrates that metonymic behavior is often pursued for its own sake in recreational activities, such as quizzes, puzzles and play, and shows the possible impact of the application of metonymic processing theory to professional fields, such as language teaching and translator training. Furthermore, it proposes a research approach with metonymy at its center, ‘metonymics,’ which Denroche suggests could provide a powerful framework for addressing issues in numerous fields of practice in the arts and sciences.

Author : Olga Blanco-Carrión,Antonio Barcelona,Rossella Pannain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264381

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Conceptual Metonymy by Olga Blanco-Carrión,Antonio Barcelona,Rossella Pannain Pdf

The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a unique feature in metonymy literature: the discussion of the structure of a detailed, web-based metonymy database (especially its entry model), and the descriptive criteria to be applied in its completion. The theoretical discussion contributes important challenging insights on several metonymy-related topics such as contingency, source prominence, “complex target”, source-target contrast / asymmetry, conceptual integration, hierarchies, triggers, de-personalization and de-roling, and many others. The case studies deal with the role of metonymy in morphology, monoclausal if only constructions, emotional categories, and iconicity in English and other languages, including one sign language. Beside cognitive linguists, especially metonymy researchers, the book should appeal to researchers in A.I., sign language, rhetoric, lexicography, and communication.

Author : Antonio Barcelona,Réka Benczes,Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223821

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Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics by Antonio Barcelona,Réka Benczes,Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Pdf

While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between entities or domains ? Is it necessarily referential? What is meant by the claim that metonymy is a stand-for relationship? Can metonymy be considered a mapping? How can it be distinguished from active zones or facets ? Is it a prototype category? The ten contributions of the present volume address such core issues on the basis of the latest research results. The volume is unique in being devoted exclusively to the delimitation of the notion of metonymy without ignoring points of divergence among the various contributors, thus paving the way towards a consensual conception of metonymy."

Author : José Luis Otal,José Luis Otal Campo,Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando,Begoña Bellés Fortuño
Publisher : Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8480214961

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Cognitive and Discourse Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy by José Luis Otal,José Luis Otal Campo,Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando,Begoña Bellés Fortuño Pdf

The intention of the work was to bring together different perspectives on the issue of making compatible Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in relation with metaphor and metonymy phenomena.

Author : M. Sandra Peña Cervel,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197716

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Cognitive Linguistics by M. Sandra Peña Cervel,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Pdf

The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation. The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein.

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258212

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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics by Klaus-Uwe Panther Pdf

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought, e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy, the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning, in particular, indirect speech acts, to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally, the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure, communicative function, and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043626

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Metonymy by Jeannette Littlemore Pdf

This book explores metonymy in language, gesture, music, art and film, and discusses the challenges it presents in cross-cultural communication.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199738632

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens Pdf

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg,Antonio Barcelona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289353

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Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar by Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg,Antonio Barcelona Pdf

Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings and forms. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in cognitive and functional linguistics, in particular, conceptual metonymy and metaphor theory, cognitive typology, and pragmatics.

Author : Günter Radden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027232423

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Aspects of Meaning Construction by Günter Radden Pdf

Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive principles. The contributions collected in the volume focus on two types of cognitive principles guiding meaning construction: meaning construction by means of metonymy and metaphor, and meaning construction by means of mental spaces and conceptual blending. The papers in the former group survey experiential evidence of figurative meaning construction and discuss high-level metaphor and metonymy, the role of metonymy in discourse, the chaining of metonymies, metonymy as an alternative to coercion, and metaphtonymic meanings of proper names. The papers in the latter group address the issues of meaning construction prompted by personal pronouns, relative clauses, inferential constructions, “sort-of” expressions, questions, and the into-causative construction.

Author : Ewa Dabrowska,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110292022

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Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Ewa Dabrowska,Dagmar Divjak Pdf

Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on the assumptions that our linguistic abilities are firmly rooted in our cognitive abilities, that meaning is essentially conceptualization, and that grammar is shaped by usage. The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides state-of-the-art overviews of the numerous subfields of cognitive linguistics written by leading international experts which will be useful for established researchers and novices alike. It is an interdisciplinary project with contributions from linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and computer scientists which will emphasise the most recent developments in the field, in particular, the shift towards more empirically-based research. In this way, it will, we hope, help to shape the field, encouraging methodologically more rigorous research which incorporates insights from all the cognitive sciences. Editor Ewa Dąbrowska was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2018.

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265906

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Studies in Figurative Thought and Language by Angeliki Athanasiadou Pdf

This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored include metaphor, metonymy and their relationship to each other, as well as the less studied figure of hyperbole and its relation to the fundamental figures of metaphor and metonymy. Collectively, the papers examine the pragmatic reasoning processes triggered by figurative thought, the lexicogrammatical motivations and/or constraints on figurative language, the impact of deeply entrenched figurative thought on the lexicon of natural languages, the cultural origins of figurative thought, and the psycholinguistic motivations for figuration. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on figurative thought and language, particularly on questions of universality vs. specificity of figuration, the impact of figuration on constructions, cross-linguistic comparisons of figurative language, and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to figurative meaning.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441152916

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics by Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of methods and current research topics and future directions. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It devotes space to looking specifically at the major figures and their contributions. It is a complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and those interested more generally in language and cognition.