Metonymy and cognitive operations
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Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Abstract
This chapter begins with a distinction made in Ruiz de Mendoza and Peña (2005) between two broad kinds of cognitive operations: formal and content operations. The former are higher-level processes whose activity is necessary for lower-level processes to take place. The latter are used to make inferences on the basis of cues provided by the linguistic expression and its context. The chapter proposes that metonymy can be broken down into two content operations, domain expansion and domain reduction, the latter of which can be further broken down into other two processes: facetization and zone activation. It then explores how these operations relate to or contrast with other content operations and the way in which they are supported by formal operations.
Abstract
This chapter begins with a distinction made in Ruiz de Mendoza and Peña (2005) between two broad kinds of cognitive operations: formal and content operations. The former are higher-level processes whose activity is necessary for lower-level processes to take place. The latter are used to make inferences on the basis of cues provided by the linguistic expression and its context. The chapter proposes that metonymy can be broken down into two content operations, domain expansion and domain reduction, the latter of which can be further broken down into other two processes: facetization and zone activation. It then explores how these operations relate to or contrast with other content operations and the way in which they are supported by formal operations.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy 7
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Part I. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena
- Metonymization 61
- Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy 89
- Metonymy and cognitive operations 103
- Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy 125
- Metonymy at the crossroads 147
- The role of metonymy in complex tropes 167
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Part II. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks
- Putting the notion of “domain” back into metonymy 197
- What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy? 217
- Metonymic matrix domains and multiple formations in indirect speech acts 249
- Authors’ biodata 269
- Metaphor and metonymy index 275
- Name index 277
- Subject index 281
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy 7
-
Part I. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena
- Metonymization 61
- Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy 89
- Metonymy and cognitive operations 103
- Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy 125
- Metonymy at the crossroads 147
- The role of metonymy in complex tropes 167
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Part II. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks
- Putting the notion of “domain” back into metonymy 197
- What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy? 217
- Metonymic matrix domains and multiple formations in indirect speech acts 249
- Authors’ biodata 269
- Metaphor and metonymy index 275
- Name index 277
- Subject index 281
