ISBN:
9789027282712
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
Series Statement:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Sprechakt
;
Kognitive Linguistik
;
Metonymie
;
Metapher
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain. The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding. The graded character of metaphoricity and its correlation with degrees of recoverability/salience. The interaction of metonymy and metaphor, e.g. the question what factors motivate the conventionalization of metonymies, which includes the perspective that conventionalized metaphors frequently have a metonymic origin. The role of image-schemata in the organization and development of a lexical subfield, which raises new questions on the nature of metaphor, the identification of source and target domains and the Invariance Hypothesis.
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