Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics
7. Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication 23
8. Metonymy and conceptual blending 51
9. The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing 81
10. Part II. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure
11. A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts 105
12. Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas 127
13. Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German 149
14. Part III. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change
15. The development of counterfactual implicatures in English 169
16. Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese 205
17. Part IV. Metonymic inferencing across languages
18. Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages 223
19. Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian 241
20. Name index 267
21. Metonymy and metaphor index 271
22. Subject index 275