Antonio Barcelona
List of John Benjamins publications in which Antonio Barcelona is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Journals
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Yearbook
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
Online Resource
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
E‑ISSN 1877‑9638
Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Edited by Carmen Portero-Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 274 pp.
Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues
Edited by Olga Blanco-Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain
The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.
Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view
Edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 28] 2011. viii, 284 pp.
Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 25] 2009. xiii, 423 pp.
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
2026 Metonymy in pragmatic inferencing in a sample of English and Spanish spoken and written texts Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 19–46 | Article
The paper describes some of the various instances of metonymy-guided pragmatic inferencing identified in two corpora, a Spanish corpus and an English corpus, which we compiled as part of project PGC2018-101214-B-I00. The texts in both corpora have approximately the same size and are evenly… read more
2026 Metonymic thinking all the way down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Introduction
2024 Trends in cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description, Serrano-Losada, Mario and Daniela Pettersson-Traba (eds.), pp. 51–74 | Article
This article is a brief introduction to the theory of conceptual metonymy and a brief survey of research on this area. The first section presents the cognitive-linguistic notion of metonymy, including a discussion of the various problematic aspects of this notion. This is followed by a longer… read more
2019 Chapter 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Chapter
The Córdoba Metonymy Database has been designed as a tool for systematically investigating conceptual metonymy across a wide variety of authentic discourse samples, mostly in English and Spanish. Its entry model features eleven analytical fields. One of them, Field 2, is devoted to suggesting the… read more
2019 Conceptual structuring of the English prepositions between, among, and amid, and their Spanish equivalent entre: A cognitive linguistic approach to spatial, non-spatial and temporal scenes Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1, pp. 103–129 | Article
Spatial language has been traditionally understood as encoding purely spatio-geometric information. However, much more than that must be considered for a full account of the semantics of space. It turns out that spatial arrangements manifest functional consequences which are non-spatial, so… read more
2018 Chapter 1. General description of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project, with particular attention to the issues of hierarchy, prototypicality, and taxonomic domains Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues, Blanco-Carrión, Olga, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (eds.), pp. 27–54 | Chapter
This chapter presents part of the results of our project on metonymy, one of the aims of which is to compile a detailed database of metonymy. The database entry model is first briefly described, but the chapter focuses on the discussion of three issues addressed by four of the database entry fields. read more
2018 Introduction: The complex task of studying metonymy Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues, Blanco-Carrión, Olga, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2011 The conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.), pp. 151–178 | Article
This chapter investigates a representative sample of English and Spanish bahuvrihi compounds (BCs). The main thesis is that, although BCs are motivated by the overriding metonymy characteristic property for category, the property itself can be conceptualized “literally” (as in humpback or dos… read more
2011 Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 7–58 | Article
Building on previous research (Barcelona, 2002, 2003), the author carefully discusses and takes a stand on the issues he finds problematic in the standard cognitive linguistic notion of metonymy. These include, among others, the status of metonymy as a mapping, as a stand-for relationship, as a… read more
2011 An overview of cognitive linguistics Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.), pp. 17–44 | Article
This chapter provides a survey of cognitive linguistics (CL). It presents the historical and intellectual context leading to its emergence as a reaction against generativism and extreme modularism. The chapter describes the main theoretical and methodological tenets of CL (non-modularism,… read more
2011 Introduction Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous
2010 Metonymic inferencing and second language acquisition Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching, Littlemore, Jeannette and Constanze Juchem-Grundmann (eds.), pp. 134–155 | Article
The article is a reflection on the various areas of cognitive linguistic research on metonymy that are of potential relevance for SLA. Three of them are particularly relevant: (1) research on metonymy-guided inferencing; (2) research on metonymy-based lexical polysemy, and (3) research on… read more
2009 Motivation of construction meaning and form: The roles of metonymy and inference Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar, Panther, Klaus-Uwe, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona (eds.), pp. 363–401 | Article
2008 The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 208–281 | Article
This paper reports on ongoing work on a large sample of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish. After a brief characterization of bahuvrihi compounds, distinguishing them from a similar type of exocentric compounds (V+O compounds), the goal of the paper is clearly stated, namely to answer a… read more
2007 The role of metonymy in meaning construction at discourse level: A case study Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds.), pp. 51–75 | Article
The process of meaning construction, as understood by Panther and Thornburg(Panther 2005), namely the determination of both explicit and implicit meaning, is to a large extent guided or facilitated by conceptual metonymy. The previously published research of the author of this chapter on the… read more
2003 Metonymy in cognitive linguistics: An analysis and a few modest proposals Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, Cuyckens, Hubert, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.), pp. 223–255 | Article
2003 The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing: Evidence from jokes and funny anecdotes Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda L. Thornburg (eds.), pp. 81–102 | Article