Eintrag

Titel

Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Personen

Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona

Jahr

2009

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Human cognitive processing

Band

25

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Französisch
Kroatisch
Portugiesisch
Ungarisch

Schlagwörter

Metapher
Metonymie

Beiträge

• Brdar Szabó: Metonymy in indirect directives: Stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian

Abstract

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.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/35194