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Chapter 2. Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology of metonymy)

Abstract

This is the second of three chapters devoted to the presentation of a set of criteria included in a database resulting from a project on the characterization of conceptual metonymy. It discusses Fields 5 and 7 of the database entry model, concerning conventionality, either conceptual or conceptual and linguistic, and the linguistic levels where metonymies operate (grammatical rank, meaning, form, grammatical process, and function).

Abstract

This is the second of three chapters devoted to the presentation of a set of criteria included in a database resulting from a project on the characterization of conceptual metonymy. It discusses Fields 5 and 7 of the database entry model, concerning conventionality, either conceptual or conceptual and linguistic, and the linguistic levels where metonymies operate (grammatical rank, meaning, form, grammatical process, and function).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. General issues in the description of metonymy: Issues in the design and implementation of a metonymy database
  6. Chapter 1. General description of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project, with particular attention to the issues of hierarchy, prototypicality, and taxonomic domains 27
  7. Chapter 2. Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology of metonymy) 55
  8. Chapter 3. Analysis of metonymic triggers, metonymic chaining, and patterns of interaction with metaphor and with other metonymies as part of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project 75
  9. Part 2. Discussion of some general properties of metonymy
  10. Chapter 4. Some contrast effects in metonymy 97
  11. Chapter 5. What kind of reasoning mode is metonymy? 121
  12. Chapter 6. Molly married money 161
  13. Part 3. Ubiquity of metonymy in languages
  14. Chapter 7. How metonymy motivates constructions 185
  15. Chapter 8. The role of metonymy in the constructionist approach to the conceptualization of emotions 205
  16. Chapter 9. The mouth of the speaker 237
  17. Chapter 10. Are smartphone face and Googleheads a real or a fake phenomenon? 261
  18. Chapter 11. Metonymy and the dynamics of conceptual operations in Spanish Sign Language 287
  19. Metonymy index 311
  20. Name index 315
  21. Subject index 321
Conceptual Metonymy
This chapter is in the book Conceptual Metonymy
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.60.02bla

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. General issues in the description of metonymy: Issues in the design and implementation of a metonymy database
  6. Chapter 1. General description of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project, with particular attention to the issues of hierarchy, prototypicality, and taxonomic domains 27
  7. Chapter 2. Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology of metonymy) 55
  8. Chapter 3. Analysis of metonymic triggers, metonymic chaining, and patterns of interaction with metaphor and with other metonymies as part of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project 75
  9. Part 2. Discussion of some general properties of metonymy
  10. Chapter 4. Some contrast effects in metonymy 97
  11. Chapter 5. What kind of reasoning mode is metonymy? 121
  12. Chapter 6. Molly married money 161
  13. Part 3. Ubiquity of metonymy in languages
  14. Chapter 7. How metonymy motivates constructions 185
  15. Chapter 8. The role of metonymy in the constructionist approach to the conceptualization of emotions 205
  16. Chapter 9. The mouth of the speaker 237
  17. Chapter 10. Are smartphone face and Googleheads a real or a fake phenomenon? 261
  18. Chapter 11. Metonymy and the dynamics of conceptual operations in Spanish Sign Language 287
  19. Metonymy index 311
  20. Name index 315
  21. Subject index 321
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