Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics
Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Antonio Barcelona

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9027223823

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While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between entities or domains ? Is it necessarily referential? What is meant by the claim that metonymy is a stand-for relationship? Can metonymy be considered a mapping? How can it be distinguished from active zones or facets ? Is it a prototype category? The ten contributions of the present volume address such core issues on the basis of the latest research results. The volume is unique in being devoted exclusively to the delimitation of the notion of metonymy without ignoring points of divergence among the various contributors, thus paving the way towards a consensual conception of metonymy."

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Barbara Dancygier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 1427

ISBN-13: 1108146139

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The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics
Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Réka Benczes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-06-24

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9027286760

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While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or “domains”? Is it necessarily referential? What is meant by the claim that metonymy is a “stand-for” relationship? Can metonymy be considered a mapping? How can it be distinguished from “active zones” or “facets”? Is it a prototype category? The ten contributions of the present volume address such core issues on the basis of the latest research results. The volume is unique in being devoted exclusively to the delimitation of the notion of metonymy without ignoring points of divergence among the various contributors, thus paving the way towards a consensual conception of metonymy.

Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009-07-29

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9027289352

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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.

Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context
Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context

Author: Zóltan Kövecses

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9004364900

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The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Metonymy
Metonymy

Author: Jeannette Littlemore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 110704362X

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This book explores metonymy in language, gesture, music, art and film, and discusses the challenges it presents in cross-cultural communication.

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-07-17

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9027296448

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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.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Dirk Geeraerts

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2010-06-09

Total Pages: 1366

ISBN-13: 0199738637

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With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy
Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy

Author: Wojciech Wachowski

Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781788743457

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The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.