Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move
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Katarina Rasulić
Abstract
This chapter explores human-related conceptual metonymies in English and Serbian. Highlighting the shared metonymic mappings involving human beings as targets (x for human) and vehicles (human for x)and the similarities/differences in their lexical and grammatical realization in the two languages, the analysis shows that concepts from the human domain are readily recruited both as targets and as vehicles of metonymic mappings, whereby preferences towards particular kinds of human-related concepts as vehicles or targets outweigh language-specific differences, yielding a rather consistent metonymic portrayal of humans in English and Serbian. The analysis is followed by a discussion of the diagnostic potential of human-related metonymies for content-based cross-linguistic study of conceptual metonymy.
Abstract
This chapter explores human-related conceptual metonymies in English and Serbian. Highlighting the shared metonymic mappings involving human beings as targets (x for human) and vehicles (human for x)and the similarities/differences in their lexical and grammatical realization in the two languages, the analysis shows that concepts from the human domain are readily recruited both as targets and as vehicles of metonymic mappings, whereby preferences towards particular kinds of human-related concepts as vehicles or targets outweigh language-specific differences, yielding a rather consistent metonymic portrayal of humans in English and Serbian. The analysis is followed by a discussion of the diagnostic potential of human-related metonymies for content-based cross-linguistic study of conceptual metonymy.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
