METONYMIC EXTENSION AS THE PROCESS UNDERLYING THE CHANGE OF COUNT AND MASS PROPERTIES OF NOUNS (original) (raw)

Metonymy Goes Cognitive-Linguistic

STYLE-FAYETTEVILLE-, 2005

The problems with Greimas led to the conclusion that not every figurative use could be foreseen and encoded in an a priori fashion in a language's lexemes. As a result, metaphor and metonymy as problems of meaning were taken out of the semantics of language and located in its ...

On the primacy of metonymic construal in lexicalization processes

ARGUMENTUM 10, pp. 301-311., 2014

In the present paper I take a look at the process of lexicalization on the basis of etymological data and examine what cognitive processes play a role in its actuation. The analysis takes place within the frames of a functional explanation according to which lexicalization is governed by two basic principles of novel usage: expressivity and efficiency. For this reason it is necessary to go beyond pure linguistic analysis and investigate the cognitive background of the choice of conventional expressions for being used in novel ways for effective reference and representation. I will discuss specific cognitive factors and show how lexicalization originates in various cognitive mechanisms in the mind of the individual speaker when new categories and concepts are named. Keywords: lexicalization, naming, conjunctivity, metonymy, construal, conceptualization, categorization

Conceptual Metonymy Theory revisited: some definitional and taxonomic issues 1

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 2021

In Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy was first studied in connection to metaphor. As time went by, scholars began to identify areas of study where metonymy played an independent role too, among them illocution and grammatical conversion. Despite the increasing number of studies, including book-length ones, there is still a pressing need for an integrative framework that levels out the differences among competing accounts. This chapter overviews some major proposals on the nature and scope of metonymy and offers a comprehensive framework capable of integrating previous insights and offering solutions to some of the still problematic aspects of the phenomenon.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF METONYMY IN COGNITIVE LINGISTICS

Today's discussions concerning metonymy abound in distinctions that may be far from obvious for those who would like to get acquainted with the major achievements and directions of research in this fi eld. That is why the article aims to trace the path that metonymy has covered within Cognitive Linguistics from its initial characterisation in the publication by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) to the present day. The article attempts to provide a general historical perspective on the phenomenon trying to indicate and discuss both the major trends as well as the consecutive stages in the development of the cognitive thought on metonymy. The author identifi es different directions of expansion of the phenomenon, enumerates different types of metonymy, and its most frequently discussed dimensions. The article is concluded with an attempt to summarize the key elements of progress that has been made in understanding metonymy since 1980.