Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research
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Grzegorz Drożdż
Abstract
This chapter formulates a proposal for dealing with two of the notorious problems of countability and uncountability in English: the problem of nouns changing their grammatical properties from count to mass and mass to count, and establishing the regularities of such changes. On the basis of the assumptions of Cognitive Grammar (e.g., Langacker, 2000, 2008), the chapter shows how, through an analysis of 30 count and 30 mass nouns (Drożdż, 2017), one more dimension arises: the metonymic one. This dimension enables a juxtaposition of this kind of research with that of Cognitive Metaphor Theory / Cognitive Metonymy Theory (Radden & Kövecses, 1999; Kövecses 2010, etc.), where comparable, conceptual structures are indicated. This leads to a discussion of certain issues concerning the methodology of metonymy analysis, the types of structures determined within both approaches, and their ultimate properties.
Abstract
This chapter formulates a proposal for dealing with two of the notorious problems of countability and uncountability in English: the problem of nouns changing their grammatical properties from count to mass and mass to count, and establishing the regularities of such changes. On the basis of the assumptions of Cognitive Grammar (e.g., Langacker, 2000, 2008), the chapter shows how, through an analysis of 30 count and 30 mass nouns (Drożdż, 2017), one more dimension arises: the metonymic one. This dimension enables a juxtaposition of this kind of research with that of Cognitive Metaphor Theory / Cognitive Metonymy Theory (Radden & Kövecses, 1999; Kövecses 2010, etc.), where comparable, conceptual structures are indicated. This leads to a discussion of certain issues concerning the methodology of metonymy analysis, the types of structures determined within both approaches, and their ultimate properties.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Resemblance and metaphor in human ecology
- Linguistic and metalinguistic resemblance 15
- Looking for metaphor in the natural world 43
- Metaphor meets narrative 63
- Political speeches 85
- On syntactic categories and metaphors 107
- Translation validity in metaphor theories 123
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Part II. Emotions in human ecology
- Kinaesthetic embodied schemas in emotion language 151
- What drives emotion and physiological arousal in adverts? 181
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Part III. Metonymy and cognitive modeling in human ecology
- Metonymy in multimodal discourse, or 209
- Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research 251
- Lexical blending in terms of cognitive modeling 275
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Resemblance and metaphor in human ecology
- Linguistic and metalinguistic resemblance 15
- Looking for metaphor in the natural world 43
- Metaphor meets narrative 63
- Political speeches 85
- On syntactic categories and metaphors 107
- Translation validity in metaphor theories 123
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Part II. Emotions in human ecology
- Kinaesthetic embodied schemas in emotion language 151
- What drives emotion and physiological arousal in adverts? 181
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Part III. Metonymy and cognitive modeling in human ecology
- Metonymy in multimodal discourse, or 209
- Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research 251
- Lexical blending in terms of cognitive modeling 275
- Index 305
