Metonymy In Language Thought And Brain

Author : Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Günter Radden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Sandra Handl,Hans-Jörg Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238181

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Windows to the Mind by Sandra Handl,Hans-Jörg Schmid Pdf

Focusing on a wide range of linguistic structures, the articles in this volume explore the explanatory potential of two of the most influential cognitive-linguistic theories, conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory and conceptual blending theory. Whether enthusiastic or critical in their stance, the contributors seek to enhance our understanding of how conventional as well as creative ways of thinking influence our language and vice versa.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Paul D. Deane
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886535

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Grammar in Mind and Brain by Paul D. Deane Pdf

Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521599539

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Mappings in Thought and Language by Gilles Fauconnier Pdf

Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.

Author : T. W. Simon,R. J. Scholes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317738053

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Language, Mind, and Brain by T. W. Simon,R. J. Scholes Pdf

The chapters in this volume are extended versions of material first presented at the National Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language, Mind, and Brain held April 6-9, 1978, in Gainesville, Florida. Importantly for interdisciplinary goals, the papers contained in this volume are quite “ available” ; that is, papers by philosophers can easily be read and understood by linguists and psychologists; the ideas of the linguists are readily comprehensible to any educated reader; the psychologists and neurologically oriented writers are clear and nderstandable. It is, then, a volume that cuts, not so much across disciplines, but through them. First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Charles Denroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Tatyana Glezerman,Victoria Balkoski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780306471650

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Language, Thought, and the Brain by Tatyana Glezerman,Victoria Balkoski Pdf

Drawing on a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, this book presents hypothesizes about the relationship between human language and thought to brain specialization. The authors focus on aphasia-language disorder resulting from local brain damage and show that the clinical aspect represents not only loss of function of the damaged area, but also results from the interaction between damaged and intact areas of the brain.

Author : Mario Brdar,Rita Brdar-Szabó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257611

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Figurative Thought and Language in Action by Mario Brdar,Rita Brdar-Szabó Pdf

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental issues of defining and delimiting metaphor and metonymy, with the impact of figuration on grammatical forms, but are also exemplary discussions of how figurative language is processed and understood, as well as studies of practical ramifications of the use of figurative language in various types of discourse (the language of media, politics and healthcare communication). Most of the volume assumes a synchronic perspective, but diachronic coverage of processes is not missing either. In short, the volume demonstrates how rewarding it is to return to the true origins of cognitive linguistics for new inspiration and take a fresh start promising a true cornucopia of future results.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Kieran M. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271087344

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Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination by Kieran M. Murphy Pdf

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism. The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between electricity and magnetism led not only to technological inventions—such as the dynamo and telegraph, which ushered in the “electric age”—but also to a profound reconceptualization of nature and the role the imagination plays in it. From the literary experiments of Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and André Breton to the creative leaps of Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein, Murphy illuminates how electromagnetism legitimized imaginative modes of reasoning based on a more acute sense of interconnection and a renewed interest in how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things. Murphy organizes his study around real and imagined electromagnetic devices, ranging from Faraday’s world-changing induction experiment to new types of chains and automata, in order to demonstrate how they provided a material foundation for rethinking the nature of difference and relation in physical and metaphysical explorations of the world, human relationships, language, and binaries such as life and death. This overlooked exchange between science and literature brings a fresh perspective to the critical debates that shaped the nineteenth century. Extensively researched and convincingly argued, this pathbreaking book addresses a significant lacuna in modern literary criticism and deepens our understanding of both the history of literature and the history of scientific thinking.

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg,Antonio Barcelona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223791

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

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.

Author : Olga Blanco-Carrión,Antonio Barcelona,Rossella Pannain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110626476

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Cognitive Linguistics - Foundations of Language by Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak Pdf

Cognitive foundations of language introduces the reader to the abilities and processes in which research in Cognitive Linguistics is grounded. The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.