Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics

Towards a consensus view
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-2382-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Reihe: Human Cognitive Processing

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benczes, Réka

Barcelona, Antonio

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

vii–viii
Introduction
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

1–6
Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy
Antonio Barcelona

7–58
Part I. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena

Metonymization: A key mechanism in semantic change
Carita Paradis

61–88
Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy
Dirk Geeraerts and Yves Peirsman

89–102
Metonymy and cognitive operations
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

103–124
Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy
Anu Koskela

125–146
Metonymy at the crossroads: A case of euphemisms and dysphemisms
Tanja Gradecak-Erdeljic and Goran Milic

147–166
The role of metonymy in complex tropes: Cognitive operations and pragmatic implications
Javier Herrero Ruiz

167–194
Part II. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks

Putting the notion of “domain” back into metonymy: Evidence from compounds
Réka Benczes

197–216
What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy?
Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar

217–248
Metonymic matrix domains and multiple formations in indirect speech acts
Xianglan Chen

249–268
Authors’ biodata

269–274
Metaphor and metonymy index

275–276
Name index

277–279
Subject index

281–284