Metonymy and metaphor in grammar / / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 423 p
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Metonyms; Metaphor
• Altri autori: PantherKlaus-Uwe <1942-> ThornburgLinda L BarcelonaAntonio <1952->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Metonymic grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- Nouns are things : evidence for a grammatical metaphor? / Wiltrud Mihatsch -- The role of metonymy in word formation : Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions / Margarida Basilio -- The metonymic basis of a "semantic partial" : Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- / Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader, and Art D. Clarito -- A new model of metaphorization : case semantics in East Caucasian / Wolfgang Schulze -- Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg -- Generic reference in English : a metonymic and conceptual blending analysis / Günter Radden -- The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó -- Metonymies we live without / Mario Brdar -- Form is motion : dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse / Rosario Caballero -- A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English : causative constructions / Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee -- Metonymy in indirect directives : stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Rita Brdar-Szabó -- The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations / M. Sandra Peña Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez -- Motivation of construction meaning and form : the roles of metonymy and inference / Antonio Barcelona.
• Sommario/riassunto: Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings and forms. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in cognitive and functional linguistics, in particular, conceptual metonymy and metaphor theory, cognitive typology, and pragmatics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Metonymy and metaphor in grammar
• ISBN: 1-282-24529-5; 9786612245299; 90-272-8935-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829039103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human cognitive processing ; ; v. 25.