Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788818403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-033545-X; 3-11-039539-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Collana: Cognitive linguistics research, , 1861-4132 ; ; volume 52
• Classificazione: EC 3765
• Disciplina: 808/.032
• Soggetti: Metaphor; Metonyms; Figures of speech; Linguistic change; Sociolinguistics; Language and culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figuration and language history: Universality and variation -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor -- Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese -- The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts -- ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis -- Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A ; diachronic approach -- ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.