Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast / edited by Rene Dirven, Ralf Porings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dirven, René.

Pörings, Ralf.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; 20.

Cognitive linguistics research ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Metonyms.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (620 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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 breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Section 1: The metonymic and the metaphoric

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

Section 2: The two-domain approach

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

Section 3: The interaction between metaphor and metonymy

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

Section 4: New breakthroughs: Blending and primary scenes

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

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612345333

9781282345331

1282345338

9783110219197

3110219190

OCLC:

560747806