Metonymy in language and thought / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Gunter Radden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-

Radden, Günter.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 4.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metonyms--Congresses.

Metonyms.

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a "figure of thought," underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frame

Contents:

Metonymy in Language and Thought; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy; Towards a Theory of Metonymy; Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy; Metonymy and Conceptual Integration; Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche; Aspects of Referential Metonymy; Part II Historical Aspects of Metonymy; Frame and Contiguity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word Formation; Co-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of Metonymy; Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts; Metonymy in Onomastics

Part III Case Studies of MetonymyGrammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object; Putting Metonymy in its Place; Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata; Opposition as a Metonymic Principle; Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions; The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian; Part IV Applications of Metonymy; "Mummy, I like being a sandwich" Metonymy in Language Acquisition; Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison's Song of Solomon; List of Contributors

Subject indexAuthor index; Metonymy and metaphor index; the series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING

Notes:

Papers presented at a workshop held June 23-24, 1996, Hamburg University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16354-X

9786612163548

90-272-9937-4

OCLC:

70767956