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Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis

  • Angeliki Athanasiadou
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Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Abstract

The objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that the cognitive processes of metaphor and metonymy may determine the form of grammatical constructions and may be responsible for the elaboration of their meaning. The positions that constitute the framework in the chapter are: (a) both cognitive processes interact and pave the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions; (b) metonymy, being subliminal, seems to be more ubiquitous than metaphor, the latter process being most of the times based on preexisting metonymy; (c) each of the two processes operates differently encouraging the use of lexical items from the domain of conditionality. Both figurative processes, it will be claimed, contribute to broadening our understanding of grammar.

Abstract

The objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that the cognitive processes of metaphor and metonymy may determine the form of grammatical constructions and may be responsible for the elaboration of their meaning. The positions that constitute the framework in the chapter are: (a) both cognitive processes interact and pave the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions; (b) metonymy, being subliminal, seems to be more ubiquitous than metaphor, the latter process being most of the times based on preexisting metonymy; (c) each of the two processes operates differently encouraging the use of lexical items from the domain of conditionality. Both figurative processes, it will be claimed, contribute to broadening our understanding of grammar.

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.56.06ath

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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