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By Word of Mouth
Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective
This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored:
- Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain.
- The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding.
- The graded character of metaphoricity and its correlation with degrees of recoverability/salience.
- The interaction of metonymy and metaphor, e.g. the question what factors motivate the conventionalization of metonymies, which includes the perspective that conventionalized metaphors frequently have a metonymic origin.
- The role of image-schemata in the organization and development of a lexical subfield, which raises new questions on the nature of metaphor, the identification of source and target domains and the Invariance Hypothesis.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 33] 1995. xii, 254 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 July 2011
Published online on 26 July 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. vii–xii
- A survey of Metalinguistic MetaphorsJohan Vanparys | p. 1
- Body Parts in Linguistic Action: Underlying Schemata and Value JudgementsPaul Pauwels and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | p. 35
- Assessing Linguistic Behaviour: A Study of Value JudgementsAnne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | p. 71
- Levels of Metaphorization: The Case of PutPaul Pauwels | p. 125
- Metaphonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic ActionLouis Goossens | p. 159
- From Three Respectable Horses’ Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data BaseLouis Goossens | p. 175
- Metaphor, Schema, Invariance: The Case of Verbs of AnsweringBrygida Rudzka-Ostyn | p. 205
- Subject Index | pp. 251–254
“The empirical depth to which this volume examines one coherent area of metaphorization in English, including theoretical and historical discussion, is a true benefit to the maturation of Cognitive Linguistics.”
James Fife, Word 49:2 (98)
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