Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast:

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...

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Other Authors: Dirven, René 1932-2016 (Editor), Pörings, Ralf (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York Mouton de Gruyter [2003]
Series:Cognitive linguistics research 20
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Summary: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 breakthroug
Item Description:Erscheinungsjahr des E-Books 2009
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 605 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110219197
DOI:10.1515/9783110219197

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