The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making
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Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Abstract
This chapter accounts for the different outcomes resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational cognitive models (scenarios). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s (2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory types. It is our contention that the kind of scenario involved constrains the inferential mechanisms activated at the pragmatic levels, which are supported by metonymic activity in the form of metonymic expansion plus metonymic reduction. How such processes can motivate the various formal aspects of constructions is discussed with reference to Kay and Fillmore’s (1999) well-known description of the What’s X Doing Y? construction. This chapter also shows the connections between Langacker’s profile-base relations and the metonymic exploitation of the different kinds of scenarios.
Abstract
This chapter accounts for the different outcomes resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational cognitive models (scenarios). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s (2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory types. It is our contention that the kind of scenario involved constrains the inferential mechanisms activated at the pragmatic levels, which are supported by metonymic activity in the form of metonymic expansion plus metonymic reduction. How such processes can motivate the various formal aspects of constructions is discussed with reference to Kay and Fillmore’s (1999) well-known description of the What’s X Doing Y? construction. This chapter also shows the connections between Langacker’s profile-base relations and the metonymic exploitation of the different kinds of scenarios.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword and acknowledgements vii
- Figurativeness all the way down 1
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Part I. Figurativeness and theory
- Metaphor thoughtfully 13
- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
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Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
- Intensification via figurative language 91
- Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
- Metonymy meets coercion 151
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Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
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Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
- Figures of speech revisited 225
- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
- Index 309
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword and acknowledgements vii
- Figurativeness all the way down 1
-
Part I. Figurativeness and theory
- Metaphor thoughtfully 13
- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
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Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
- Intensification via figurative language 91
- Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
- Metonymy meets coercion 151
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Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
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Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
- Figures of speech revisited 225
- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
- Index 309
