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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Table of Contents:
- Front matter; 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
- Category extension by metonymy and metaphor Metaphtonymy: 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; Back matter