Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics
- Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication
- Metonymy and conceptual blending
- The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing
- Part II. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure
- A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts
- Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas
- Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German
- Part III. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change
- The development of counterfactual implicatures in English
- Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese
- Part IV. Metonymic inferencing across languages
- Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages
- Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian
- Name index
- Metonymy and metaphor index
- Subject index
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.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics
- Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication
- Metonymy and conceptual blending
- The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing
- Part II. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure
- A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts
- Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas
- Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German
- Part III. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change
- The development of counterfactual implicatures in English
- Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese
- Part IV. Metonymic inferencing across languages
- Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages
- Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian
- Name index
- Metonymy and metaphor index
- Subject index