Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-

Thornburg, Linda L.

Conference Name:

International Pragmatics Conference (7th : 2000 : Budapest, Hungary)

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 113.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metonyms--Congresses.

Metonyms.

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Inference--Congresses.

Inference.

Speech acts (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Linguistic change--Congresses.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars working in a pragmatic framework. Topics include the metonymic basis of explicature and implicature, the role of metonymically-based inferences in speech act and discourse interpretation, the pragmatic meaning of grammatical constructions, the impact of metonymic mappings on and their interaction with grammatical structure, the role of metonymic inferencing and implicature in linguistic change, and the comparison of metonymic principles across languages and different cultural settings.

Contents:

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication page

Table of contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Background and purpose of the volume

2. Some properties of conceptual metonymy

2.1. Metonymy as a contingent relation

2.2. Metonymy and speech acts

2.3. Do referential, predicational, and illocutionary metonymies form a ``natural class''?

2.4. Strength of metonymic link

2.5. The ubiquity of metonymy

2.6. Summary

3. Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing

3.1. Metonymy and implicature

3.2. Metonymy and explicature

4. The contributions to this volume

4.1. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics

4.2. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure

4.3. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change

4.4. Metonymic inferencing across languages

5. Prospects for studies in metonymy

Notes

References

Part 1. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics

Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication

1. Introduction

2. Implicatures and explicatures

3. Metaphoric mappings and pragmatic implication

4. Metonymic mappings and pragmatic implication

5. Explicature derivation through double metonymic mapping

6. Conceptual interaction between metaphor and metonymy as a form of deriving explicatures

7. Summary and conclusion

Metonymy and conceptual blending

2. General definitions of conceptual blending

2.1. Mental space theory

2.2. Conceptual blending theory

2.3. Conceptual integration networks

3. Optimality principles

4. Metonymic shifts

5. Idioms: X your own Y

5.1. Digging your own grave

5.2. Blowing your own horn

6. Sculpture

7. Conclusion

The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing.

1. Introduction

2. Metonymy

3. Analysis of a sample of jokes and anecdotes

3.1. The pediatrician and the innocent young mother

3.2. The ironic doctor

3.3. Clubs and kindness

3.4. A parliamentary repartee

4. Conclusions

Part 2. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure

A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts

2. Some basic tenets of Construction Grammar

3. Indirect speech act constructions

3.1. Unpredictable semantic properties of indirect speech acts

3.2. Unpredictable formal properties of indirect speech acts

3.3. The metonymy link

4. Neurolinguistic evidence

5. Discussion and conclusions

Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas

2. A cognitive approach to independent if-clauses

2.1. The conceptual space of the independent if-clause

2.2. A scenario approach to speech acts

3. Analysis of data

3.1. Deontic function

3.2. Expressive function

3.3. Epistemic function

4. Summary and conclusions

Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German

1. Introduction: remarkable syntax in a text by Karl Waggerl

2. The semantics of nominal classification in German

2.1. Some principles of gender assignment in the German lexicon

2.2. Empirical support for non-arbitrary gender assignment in German

3. German neut-gender classification for human beings

3.1. Historical development and current productivity

3.2. Metonymic motivation of German neut-gender nouns

4. Metonymic processes in discourse: the Waggerl text

5. Conclusion

Appendix

Part 3. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change

The development of counterfactual implicatures in English

1. Introduction.

2. M-inferences and counterfactual implicatures

2.1. M-inferences and Quantity

2.2. Other possible candidates for M-inferences

2.3. Modality and Horn-scales

2.4. The contribution of metonymic extensions

3. Aspect and grammatical environment

4. Interim summary

5. A survey of diachronic texts

5.1. Data and environments

5.2. Results and discussion

6. Comparison of the three alternates

7. Conclusions

Primary sources

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese

2. Morphemes used as comps and as sfps

3. Koto as an sfp in the [S koto] construction

4. Pragmatic inference in the reanalysis of koto

5. The role of metonymy in the reanalysis of grammatical morphemes

Part 4. Metonymic inferencing across languages

Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages

2. Metonymic construal of shopping requests in have- and be-languages

2.1. Precondition: the article's availability

2.2. Transfer of the article to the customer

2.3. Reception of the article by the customer

2.4. Result of the article's transaction

2.5. Summary

3. Discussion

3.1. Possession vs. existence

3.2. Indirectness vs. Deference

3.3. Action vs. process

Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian

2. Reporting linguistic action and metonymy

3. A preliminary crosslinguistic comparison

4. Referential vs. predicational metonymy, polysemy of adjectives and the role of grammatical constructions in English

5. More contrastive data on ascriptive constructions and polysemy in predication formation.

6. Conclusions

Note

Name index

Metonymy and metaphor index

Subject index

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Revisions of papers presented in the workshop Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing organized for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest, Hungary, July 7-14, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161179

9781282161177

1282161172

9789027296443

9027296448