Metonymy and metaphor in grammar:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2009
Series:Human cognitive processing 25
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : on figuration in grammar / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg -- Metonymic grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- Nouns are things : evidence for a grammatical metaphor? / Wiltrud Mihatsch -- The role of metonymy in word formation : Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions / Margarida Basilio -- The metonymic basis of a 'semantic partial' : Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- / Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader and Art D. Clarito -- A new model of metaphorization : case semantics in East Caucasian / Wolfgang Schulze -- Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg -- Generic reference in English : a metonymic and conceptual blending analysis / Günter Radden -- The (non- )metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó -- Metonymies we live without / Mario Brdar -- Form is motion : dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse / Rosario Caballero -- A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English causative constructions / Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee -- Metonymy in indirect directives : stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Rita Brdar-Szabó -- The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations / M. Sandra Peña Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez -- Motivation of construction meaning and form : the roles of metonymy and inference / 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 figure
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ISBN:9027289352
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