Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast / edited by René Dirven, Ralf Pörings.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2002.
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| Series: | 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 two domain 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 605 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110219197 3110219190 1282345338 9781282345331 9786612345333 6612345330 3110166909 9783110166903 |