Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast /

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast / / ed. by René Dirven, Ralf Pörings.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Barcelona, Antonio,
Bartsch, Renate,
Clarke, David D.,
Croft, William,
Dirven, René,
Diéz Velasco, Olga Isabel,
Fauconnier, Gilles,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Goossens, Louis,
Grady, Joseph,
Jakobson, Roman,
Johnson, Christopher,
Kövecses, Zoltán,
Nerlich, Brigitte,
Palmer, Gary B.,
Panther, Klaus-Uwe,
Radden, Günter,
Riemer, Nick,
Taylor, John R.,
Thornburg, Linda L.,
Turner, Mark,
Warren, Beatrice,
HerausgeberIn:
Dirven, René,
Pörings, Ralf,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (605 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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