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Metonymy in Language, Thought and Brain
This volume presents a survey of the studies of metonymy in various aspects of language from the cognitive linguistic perspective. It discusses the role of metonymy not only in the traditional domain of semantics but also in morphology, linguistic pragmatics and formal dimensions of language, includ... Read more
Published: 2013
Pages: 296
eBook: 9781908049346
This volume presents a survey of the studies of metonymy in various aspects of language from the cognitive linguistic perspective. It discusses the role of metonymy not only in the traditional domain of semantics but also in morphology, linguistic pragmatics and formal dimensions of language, including syntax. The most influential modern theories of metonymy are thoroughly and critically discussed. Since the picture that emerges shows metonymy as a universal conceptual phenomenon, the last chapter of the book is devoted to the discussion of the possible biological or, rather, neural and evolutionary reasons why metonymy is so rampant. Thus, another important aim of this study is to consider the problem of the embodiment of metonymy from the point of view of modern neuroscience.
Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek is Head of the English Department at the Higher School of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. His most recent publication (co-edited with A. Turula) is Studies in Cognitive Semantics (Wydawnictwo WSL, 2010).
Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek is Head of the English Department at the Higher School of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. His most recent publication (co-edited with A. Turula) is Studies in Cognitive Semantics (Wydawnictwo WSL, 2010).
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | iii | ||
| Acknowledgements | iv | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 | 3 | ||
| Notes | 57 | ||
| Chapter 2 | 61 | ||
| Notes | 105 | ||
| Chapter 3 | 109 | ||
| Notes | 150 | ||
| Chapter 4 | 153 | ||
| Notes | 184 | ||
| Chapter 5 | 187 | ||
| Notes | 227 | ||
| Chapter 6 | 231 | ||
| Notes | 266 | ||
| Chapter 7 | 267 | ||
| References | 271 | ||
| Index | 289 |