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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822695603321

Titolo

Defining metonymy in cognitive linguistics : towards a consensus view / / edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-14408-5

9786613144089

90-272-8676-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 284 p. : ill

Collana

Human cognitive processing ; ; v. 28

Classificazione

ER 955

ET 475

Altri autori (Persone)

BarcelonaAntonio <1952->

BenczesRéka

Ruiz de Mendoza IbáñezFrancisco José <1961->

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Metonyms

Cognitive grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena -- pt. 2. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks.

Sommario/riassunto

The notion of matrix domain in metonymy needs further exploration in connection to its role in the unfolding of contextual elements in discourse. On the basis of different dialogues in Chinese, I examine the way shifts in indirect speech act meaning relate to changes in the metonymic source and target domains underlying such meaning. I claim that matrix domains can have different configurations within the same discourse: in some situations, one source domain can map onto more than one target domain, while in others several source domains can map onto only one target domain. I propose that speech acts sometimes change from one (sub)type to another as the speaker-hearer interaction develops, remodeling the initial configuration of the matrix domain.