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Reflections on conceptual metonymy
  • Günter Radden
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Conceptual Metonymy
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Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the conceptual basis of metonymy. Particular attention is devoted to properties that are considered crucial to conceptual metonymy. The metonymic source has received little attention. However, it plays an important role as an element of the target and is given due attention. The notion of association is applied to metonymic interconnections, inference, and strength of association. A central element of metonymy is the notion of relation: However, neither contiguity nor indexicality adequately covers the range of metonymic relations. The paper argues that two more properties are pertinent to conceptual metonymy: a metonymic shift from a source concept to a complex metonymic target, and the conceptualintegration of source and target and its resulting emergent meanings.

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the conceptual basis of metonymy. Particular attention is devoted to properties that are considered crucial to conceptual metonymy. The metonymic source has received little attention. However, it plays an important role as an element of the target and is given due attention. The notion of association is applied to metonymic interconnections, inference, and strength of association. A central element of metonymy is the notion of relation: However, neither contiguity nor indexicality adequately covers the range of metonymic relations. The paper argues that two more properties are pertinent to conceptual metonymy: a metonymic shift from a source concept to a complex metonymic target, and the conceptualintegration of source and target and its resulting emergent meanings.

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.60.06rad

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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