Screen LibraryMetaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast /
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's...
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Mouton de Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cognitive linguistics research ;
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| Summary: |
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroug |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(605pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9783110219197 |
| Index Number: | P301 |
| CLC: | H05 |
| Contents: |
Category extension by metonymy and metaphorMetaphtonymy: The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in expressions for linguistic actIon; When is a metonymy no longer a metonymy?; How metonymic are metaphors?; The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions; Metaphor, metonymy, and binding; Patterns of conceptual interaction; Converging evidence for the notions of subscene and primary scene; Blending the past and the present: Conceptual and linguistic integration, 1800-2000; Backmatter. Frontmatter ; Contents; Introduction; The metaphoric and metonymic poles; Generating polysemy: Metaphor and metonymy; Metonymy and metaphor: Different mental strategies of conceptualisation; An alternative account of the interpretation of referential metonymy and metaphor; Language and emotion: The interplay of conceptualisation with physiology and culture; The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies; Clarifying and applying the notions of metaphor and metonymy within cognitive linguistics: An update; The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominals. |