Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Nachdruck 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-017373-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 605 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1063 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pörings, Ralf

Dirven, René

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

René Dirven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Duisburg, Germany.
Ralf Pörings is Assistant Professor at the University of Essen, Germany.