Metonymy In Language And Thought

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Günter Radden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027223564

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Metonymy in Language and Thought by Klaus-Uwe Panther,Günter Radden Pdf

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a “figure of thought,” underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 1908049340

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Metonymy in Language, Thought and Brain by Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek Pdf

The book presents a survey of the studies of metonymy in various aspects of language from the cognitive linguistic perspective. It discusses the role of metonymy not only in the traditional domain of semantics but also in morphology, linguistic pragmatics and formal dimensions of language, including syntax. The most influential modern theories of metonymy are thoroughly and critically discussed and the author also proposes his own original solutions to the problems which arise, taking into account his Polish perspective. Since the picture that emerges shows metonymy as a universal conceptual phenomenon, the last chapter is devoted to the discussion of the possible biological, neural and evolutionary reasons why metonymy is so rampant. Thus, another important aim of this study is to consider the problem of the embodiment of metonymy from the point of view of modern neuroscience.

Author : Marianna Bolognesi,Mario Brdar,Kristina Despot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262295

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Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age by Marianna Bolognesi,Mario Brdar,Kristina Despot Pdf

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261021

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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.

Author : Mario Brdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527507425

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Metonymy and Word-Formation by Mario Brdar Pdf

This book deals with the interplay between word-formation and metonymy. It shows that, like metaphor, metonymy interacts in important ways with morphological structure, but also warns us against a virtually unconstrained conception of metonymy. The central claim here is that word-formation and metonymy are distinct linguistic components that complement and mutually constrain each other. Using linguistic data from a variety of languages, the book provides ample empirical support for its thesis. It is much more than a systematic study of two neglected linguistic phenomena, for a long time thought to be unimportant by linguists. Through exposing and explaining the intricate interaction between metonymy and word formation from a cognitive linguistic perspective, the reader is presented with a sense of the amazing complexity of the development of linguistic systems. This book will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students interested in the role of figuration in grammar.

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg,Antonio Barcelona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Paula Pérez Sobrino
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264671

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Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising by Paula Pérez Sobrino Pdf

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which people think creatively through metaphor and metonymy. The thorough analysis of a corpus of 210 authentic printed advertisements shows the central role of multimodal metaphor, metonymy, and their patterns of interaction, at the heart of advertising campaigns. This book is the first in-depth research monograph to bring together qualitative and quantitative evidence of metaphor-metonymy combinations in real multimodal discourse. It combines detailed case study analyses with corpus-based analysis and psycholinguistic enquiry to provide the reader with a prismatic approach to the topic of figurative language in multimodal advertising. Besides its theoretical contribution to the field of multimodal figurative language, this monograph has a wide number of practical applications due to its focus on advertising and the communicative impact of creative messages on consumers. This book will pave the way for further qualitative and quantitative research on the ways in which figurative language shapes multimodal discourse, and how it relates to our everyday creative thinking.

Author : Wojciech Wachowski
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 1788743458

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Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy by Wojciech Wachowski Pdf

The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.

Author : Olga Blanco-Carrión,Antonio Barcelona,Rossella Pannain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Beatrice Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123135555

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Referential Metonymy by Beatrice Warren Pdf

Author : René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892901

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Cognitive Models in Language and Thought by René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz Pdf

The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Author : Mario Brdar,Goran Milić,Dubravka Vidaković Erdeljić,Rita Brdar-Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527573925

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Figurative Thought and Language in the Human Universe by Mario Brdar,Goran Milić,Dubravka Vidaković Erdeljić,Rita Brdar-Szabó Pdf

The volume focuses on the interaction between figurative language, embodiment, and society and culture from various theoretical and applied perspectives and methodologies. It bears wit-ness to the vibrancy of research into figurative language and the role of embodiment, with conceptualization motivated not just by our physical interaction with the external world, but also by social and cultural phenomena. The topics explored here include the impact of figura-tion on all levels of linguistic analysis, including grammar, discourse, and the relationship be-tween language and emotions.

Author : Antonio Barcelona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110894677

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Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads by Antonio Barcelona Pdf

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and conceptual integration (blending). The book has two main goals. One of them is to discuss in new, provocative ways the nature of these conceptual mappings in English and their interaction. The other goal is to explore by means of several detailed case studies the central role of these mappings in English. The studies are, thus, concerned with the operation of metaphor and metonymy in discourse, including literary discourse or with the effect of metaphorical and/or metonymic mappings on some aspects of linguistic structure, be it polysemy or grammar. The book is of interest to students and researchers in English and linguistics, English literature, cognitive psychology and cognitive science.