Main description:
Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a 'figure of thought,' underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models.
The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy
- Towards a Theory of Metonymy
- Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy
- Metonymy and Conceptual Integration
- Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche
- Aspects of Referential Metonymy
- Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy
- frame and Cognity
- Co-presence and Succession
- Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts
- Metonymy in Onomastics
- Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy
- Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy
- Putting Metonymy in its Place
- Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata
- Opposition as a Metonymic Principle
- Metonymic Hierarchies
- The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian
- Part IV: Applications of Metonymy
- 'Mummy, I like being a sandwich'
- Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison's Song ofSolomon
- List of Contributors
- Subject index
- Author index
- Metonymy and metaphor index
Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a 'figure of thought,' underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models.
The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy
- Towards a Theory of Metonymy
- Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy
- Metonymy and Conceptual Integration
- Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche
- Aspects of Referential Metonymy
- Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy
- frame and Cognity
- Co-presence and Succession
- Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts
- Metonymy in Onomastics
- Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy
- Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy
- Putting Metonymy in its Place
- Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata
- Opposition as a Metonymic Principle
- Metonymic Hierarchies
- The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian
- Part IV: Applications of Metonymy
- 'Mummy, I like being a sandwich'
- Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison's Song ofSolomon
- List of Contributors
- Subject index
- Author index
- Metonymy and metaphor index