Frames and constructions in metaphoric language / / Karen Sullivan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963969603321
• Autore: Sullivan Karen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013
• ISBN: 9781283970853; 1283970856; 9789027272409; 9027272409
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Collana: Constructional Approaches to Language ; ; 14; Constructional approaches to language, , 1573-594X ; ; v. 14
• Disciplina: 809/.915
• Soggetti: Metaphor; Structural linguistics; Construction grammar
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Metaphoric language and metaphoric thought; 1.1 Conceptual metaphor; 1.2 Words and constructions; 1.3 Objectives and overview of the book; 1.4 Framework and terminology; Chapter 2. Frames in metaphor and meaning; 2.1 Opening the semantic toolbox; 2.2 What are semantic frames?; 2.3 What are domains?; 2.4 Frame structure in metaphor input domains; 2.5 A frame-semantic model of autonomy and dependence; Chapter 3. Frames and lexical choice in metaphor; 3.1 Introduction and methodology3.2 The Invariance Principle; 3.3 Having a sunny disposition: Lexical choice in happiness is light; 3.4 A brilliant plan: Lexical choice in intelligence is light-emission; 3.5 The metaphoric and non-metaphoric senses of bright; 3.6 Understanding is seeing and comprehensibility is visibility; 3.7 Adjectives vs. adverbs: Brilliantly, clearly, brightly and sunnily; Chapter 4. Frames in metonymic inferencing; 4.1 Unmasking a metaphor look-alike; 4.2 A frame-based model of metonymic inferencing; 4.3 See 'meet with' and be seeing 'be dating'; 4.4 Comparison with metaphorChapter 5. Two types of adjective construction in metaphor; 5.1 Constructional constraints on metaphor; 5.2 Domain constructions; 5.3 Predicating modifier constructions; 5.4 Compounds; Chapter 6. Argument structure constructions in metaphor; 6.1 Verbs and their arguments; 6.2 Intransitives; 6.3 Domain-neutral items; 6.4 Transitive constructions; 6.5 Resultatives; 6.6 Ditransitive constructions; 6.7 Equations; 6.8 A note on similes; Chapter 7. Metaphoric preposition phrases and closed-class items; 7.1 Variability in preposition phrases; 7.2 Relational nouns in PPs; 7.3 Event nouns in PPs7.4 The role of prepositions in specifying relations; 7.5 Limitations on metaphoric closed-class items; 7.6 Other closed classes; Chapter 8. Repeated domain evocation and xyz constructions; 8.1 Combining metaphoric constructions; 8.2 Multiple target-domain items; 8.3 Multiple source-domain items; 8.4 The xyz constructions; 8.5 Multiple source- and target-domain items; 8.6 Combining conceptual metaphors; Chapter 9. Metaphoric constructions beyond the clause; 9.1 A range of constructional complexity; 9.2 Relative clauses; 9.3 Conditionals; 9.4 Parallelism; 9.5 Negation of the literal9.6 Allegory; Chapter 10. Conclusion; 10.1 Limitations; 10.2 Building bridges; References; Primary sources; Index of constructions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in metaphoric and non-metaphoric constructions, make it possible to apply findings from Frame Semantics, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar to understand how conceptual metaphor surfaces in language.