Metonymy and metaphor in grammar / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-

Thornburg, Linda L.

Barcelona, Antonio, 1952-

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 25.

Human cognitive processing ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metonyms.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

xiii, 423 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, 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. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings and forms. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in cognitive and functional linguistics, in particular, conceptual metonymy and metaphor theory, cognitive typology, and pragmatics.

Contents:

Metonymic grammar / Ronald W. Langacker

Nouns are things : evidence for a grammatical metaphor? / Wiltrud Mihatsch

The role of metonymy in word formation : Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions / Margarida Basilio

The metonymic basis of a "semantic partial" : Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- / Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader, and Art D. Clarito

A new model of metaphorization : case semantics in East Caucasian / Wolfgang Schulze

Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg

Generic reference in English : a metonymic and conceptual blending analysis / Günter Radden

The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó

Metonymies we live without / Mario Brdar

Form is motion : dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse / Rosario Caballero

A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English : causative constructions / Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee

Metonymy in indirect directives : stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Rita Brdar-Szabó

The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations / M. Sandra Peña Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Motivation of construction meaning and form : the roles of metonymy and inference / Antonio Barcelona.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245299

9781282245297

1282245295

9789027289353

9027289352

OCLC:

460684778