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Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistics Research): 20 - Hardcover

 
9783110173734: Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistics Research): 20
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110173735 ISBN 13: 9783110173734
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110173735
ISBN 13 
9783110173734
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
622
Editor
Dirven René, Pörings Ralf