Metonymy in Frames
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Metonymy in Frames

The Role of Functional Relations in Contiguity-Based Semantic Shifts of Nouns

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Metonymy in Frames

The Role of Functional Relations in Contiguity-Based Semantic Shifts of Nouns

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This work refines the notion of metonymy and the underlying notion of conceptual contiguity by describing a fundamental structural property of metonymy.

Studied since antiquity, metonymy is a ubiquitous mechanism of meaning construction in context that involves a linguistically coded source concept that directs attention to a situationally relevant target concept. Modelling metonymic contiguity by means of recursive attribute-value structures, inspired by findings from cognitive psychology, suggests that the metonymic relation depends largely on the functionality of the source with respect to the target.

Based on this structural property, several patterns can be identified as potential bases for metonymic shifts. How these shifts are coded on the linguistic surface varies depending on whether the focus within the relevant frame is more on the source (metonymy closer to literal use) or more on the target (metonymy closer to word formation). Furthermore, decomposing the contiguity relation into functional relations hints at a potential conceptual distance between the source and target. This approach contributes to understanding the boundaries and possibilities of metonymy.

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Publisher
DĂźsseldorf University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9783110755565
Edition
1
Topic
Sprachen & Linguistik
Subtopic
Sprachwissenschaft

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Mentally Representing the World
  11. 3 Frames: A Recursive Format for Mental Knowledge Representation
  12. 4 Meaning: Stability and Flexibility
  13. 5 Metonymy
  14. 6 A Way of Analysing Metonymy in Frames
  15. 7 Integrating Received Knowledge of Metonymy into Frames
  16. 8 Source Focus versus Target Focus
  17. 9 Metonymy and Directionality: Patterns in Non-Relational Frames
  18. 10 Metonymy and Directionality: Patterns in Relational Frames
  19. 11 Conceptual Distance in Metonymy
  20. 12 Summary and Discussion
  21. 13 Conclusion
  22. Index