The Puzzle of Vehicle Selection in Conceptual Metonymies

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68062-3
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

When you use a metonymy to say “I’ve got a new set of wheels,” why do you refer to a car by means of the wheels rather any other part? Most cognitive linguist would agree that we prefer to talk about parts that are somehow salient, yet the seemingly simple notion of salience is entangled in a number of intricate problems related to how we understand and talk about the surrounding reality. Adopting the theoretic framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, this volume studies deep and general cognitive factors governing salience effects that influence the ways we use conceptual metonymies in phonic and sign languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kowalewski, Hubert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Hubert Kowalewski is an assistant professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland). His main professional interests include cognitive linguistics, methodology of linguistics, philosophy of science, and translation studies.