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Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse

  • Annalisa Baicchi
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Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Abstract

This chapter addresses the role of figurative thought at the level of discourse and investigates the metonymic grounding of interpersonal communication. With the focus placed upon illocutionary constructions realized through the interrogative sentence type, it aims to delineate the way in which conceptual metonymy contributes to moulding indirect illocutions. The research is conducted under the umbrella of theCost-Benefit Cognitive Model, which conceives of illocutions as entrenched, productive and replicable form-function pairings. The qualitative analysis of attested corpus data retrieved from thebnc, thecoca, and the WebCorp provides a depiction of the variety and complexity of some constructional procedures along with the socio-cultural variables licensing them, and it prompts the proposal of aThinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking(TFMS) process that motivates illocutionary indirectness.

Abstract

This chapter addresses the role of figurative thought at the level of discourse and investigates the metonymic grounding of interpersonal communication. With the focus placed upon illocutionary constructions realized through the interrogative sentence type, it aims to delineate the way in which conceptual metonymy contributes to moulding indirect illocutions. The research is conducted under the umbrella of theCost-Benefit Cognitive Model, which conceives of illocutions as entrenched, productive and replicable form-function pairings. The qualitative analysis of attested corpus data retrieved from thebnc, thecoca, and the WebCorp provides a depiction of the variety and complexity of some constructional procedures along with the socio-cultural variables licensing them, and it prompts the proposal of aThinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking(TFMS) process that motivates illocutionary indirectness.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Editor and contributors vii
  4. Foreword ix
  5. Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? 1
  6. Part I. Figuration and grammar
  7. Chapter 1. Exploiting wh -questions for expressive purposes 17
  8. Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole 41
  9. Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse 75
  10. Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek 105
  11. Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact 125
  12. Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis 151
  13. Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
  14. Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language 179
  15. Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move 199
  16. Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification 231
  17. Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
  18. Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders 253
  19. Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures 273
  20. Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors 295
  21. Name index 323
  22. Subject index 325
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.56.03bai

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Editor and contributors vii
  4. Foreword ix
  5. Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? 1
  6. Part I. Figuration and grammar
  7. Chapter 1. Exploiting wh -questions for expressive purposes 17
  8. Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole 41
  9. Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse 75
  10. Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek 105
  11. Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact 125
  12. Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis 151
  13. Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
  14. Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language 179
  15. Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move 199
  16. Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification 231
  17. Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
  18. Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders 253
  19. Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures 273
  20. Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors 295
  21. Name index 323
  22. Subject index 325
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