Metaphor, metonymy and lexicogenesis Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goatly, Andrew, 1950- author.

Series:

Human cognitive processing v. 78

Human cognitive processing (HCP) volume 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Word formation.

English language.

English language--Metonyms.

Metaphor.

metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2024]

Summary:

"This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy - figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii) derivation obscures the figurative origins of this lexis to varying degrees depending on differing processing strategies; (iii) lexicalisation is determined by Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson's sense) to the needs of a culture or its powerful interest groups, where culture, following Norman Fairclough, is characterised as an ensemble of recognised action/discourse genres. This volume is distinctive in exploring the relations between grammar and metonymy and providing numerous examples of metaphorical and metonymic lexis as it reflects society's changing needs and (contested) ideologies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Typographical conventions

List of tables

List of figures

Introduction

1. Rationale

2. Metaphor and metonymy

2.1 Metaphor versus metonymy

2.2 Jakobson

2.3 Conventionalisation of metaphor and metonymy and their themes

2.4 Metaphor, metonymy, genre, relevance and the semantics of grammar

3. New lexis

4. Three themes of this book

5. The outline of the book

6. The web-site

Chapter 1 Metaphor

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Defining metaphor

Reference and sense

Modification

Assignment

1.3 Problems of the literal-metaphorical distinction

1.4 Clines of metaphor

1.4.1 Approximation and varieties of similarity

1.4.2 Contradictoriness

1.4.3 Explicitness and marking

1.4.4 Conventionality

1.5 Conceptual metaphor and the experientialist hypothesis

1.6 Lexicographical evidence to test Lakoff's theory

Chapter 2 Metonymy

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Definition

An operational definition of metonymy

2.3 Metonymy and contiguity

2.3.1 Peirsman and Geeraerts' contiguity cline

2.3.2 Frames, schemas and degrees of contiguity

2.3.3 Probability and degrees of contiguity

2.4 Onamosiological conventionality, and zone activation v. metonymy

2.5 Conventionalisation of metonymies

2.6 Some conventional metonymy themes

2.7 Metonymy, deletion and semantic roles

2.8 Interpreting metonymy according to the semantic elements of the clause

2.9 Textually generated metonymies and local conventionalisation

Chapter 3 Problems in distinguishing metaphor and metonymy

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The overlap between metaphor and metonymy

3.3 The experiential hypothesis and metonymic origins of metaphor themes

Negative emotion is discomfort/pain

negative emotion is hurt/injury

happiness/hope is light

sadness/pessimism is dark

3.4 Literalisation or situational triggering

3.5 Substitution and combination interdependence

3.6 Analogy and abstract concretisation

3.7 Feature selection as metonymic or metaphoric

3.8 Grounds as potentially metonymic

3.9 Contingent or possible features in metonymy and metaphor

3.10 Metaphtonomy

3.11 Simultaneous metonymy and metaphor

3.12 A cline from metonymy to metaphor?

Chapter 4 Functions of metaphor and metonymy

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Fiction

4.3 Persuasion, argument and argument by analogy

4.4 Explanation and modelling

4.5 Re-conceptualisation

4.6 Cultural and ideological (re-)production

4.7 Symbolism

4.8 Cultivating intimacy

4.9 Humour and games

4.10 Expressing emotion

4.11 Disguise, euphemism, hyperbole

4.12 Textual structuring

4.13 Increasing information content

4.14 Enhancing memorability

4.15 Providing new lexis and making the language system flexible

Chapter 5 Metaphor and metonymy and new words

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Process of lexicogenesis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Goatly, Andrew, 1950- Metaphor, metonymy and lexicogenesis

ISBN:

9789027246523

9027246521

OCLC:

1460468408

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