Metonymic extension and vagueness
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Sandra L. Halverson
Abstract
The language sample provided by the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus (NNC) provides an appropriate corpus for the investigation of emerging uses of existent linguistic forms. A case in point is the development of new metonymical uses of place names; such uses often involve reference to events located at specific places, or the participants or results of such events. The same metonymic uses also exhibit signs of vagueness between one or more metonymic readings. In this study vagueness is defined in cognitive terms, using Tuggy’s model (1993/2006), and the development of metonymic senses is studied in two place name categories at different stages of development. The findings are discussed in light of Peirsman and Geeraerts (2006a, b) prototype model of metonymic relationships.
Abstract
The language sample provided by the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus (NNC) provides an appropriate corpus for the investigation of emerging uses of existent linguistic forms. A case in point is the development of new metonymical uses of place names; such uses often involve reference to events located at specific places, or the participants or results of such events. The same metonymic uses also exhibit signs of vagueness between one or more metonymic readings. In this study vagueness is defined in cognitive terms, using Tuggy’s model (1993/2006), and the development of metonymic senses is studied in two place name categories at different stages of development. The findings are discussed in light of Peirsman and Geeraerts (2006a, b) prototype model of metonymic relationships.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
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Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
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Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
-
Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
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Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
