Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact
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Mario Brdar
Abstract
It is often assumed that the relationship between metonymy and grammar is one-way traffic. By applying a cross-linguistic perspective in studying the relationship between grammar and metonymy to the example of so-called embellished clippings and local genitive constructions (arising via an anti-associative-like stage) we demonstrate that whether a certain type of metonymy is available in a given language is dependent on the ecological conditions present in the system (including its word-formation system). The relationship between grammar and metonymy is quite complex: it often involves genuine two-way interaction, and it is often a whole cluster of interrelated structural facts that can formally align potential metonymic source expressions and thus facilitate or, conversely, pre-empt the application of a given metonymy.
Abstract
It is often assumed that the relationship between metonymy and grammar is one-way traffic. By applying a cross-linguistic perspective in studying the relationship between grammar and metonymy to the example of so-called embellished clippings and local genitive constructions (arising via an anti-associative-like stage) we demonstrate that whether a certain type of metonymy is available in a given language is dependent on the ecological conditions present in the system (including its word-formation system). The relationship between grammar and metonymy is quite complex: it often involves genuine two-way interaction, and it is often a whole cluster of interrelated structural facts that can formally align potential metonymic source expressions and thus facilitate or, conversely, pre-empt the application of a given metonymy.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editor and contributors vii
- Foreword ix
- Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? 1
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Part I. Figuration and grammar
- Chapter 1. Exploiting wh -questions for expressive purposes 17
- Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole 41
- Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse 75
- Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek 105
- Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact 125
- Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis 151
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Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
- Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language 179
- Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move 199
- Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification 231
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Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
- Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders 253
- Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures 273
- Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors 295
- Name index 323
- Subject index 325
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editor and contributors vii
- Foreword ix
- Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? 1
-
Part I. Figuration and grammar
- Chapter 1. Exploiting wh -questions for expressive purposes 17
- Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole 41
- Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse 75
- Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek 105
- Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact 125
- Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis 151
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Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
- Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language 179
- Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move 199
- Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification 231
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Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
- Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders 253
- Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures 273
- Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors 295
- Name index 323
- Subject index 325
