The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing

Sánchez, Antonio Barcelona

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“…The implicature that the causal clause is relevant for the topic of the main clause is guided by the above metonymy: feather activates very low weight; on the role of metonymy in implicature, see e.g. Barcelona (2002aBarcelona ( , 2003bBarcelona ( , 2005 and the various other essays in Panther & Thornburg (2003). As soon as feathers are no longer really involved in the situation described by a sentence, the use of the concept feather in association with very low weight becomes metaphorical, as in This garbage bag is feather-weight: it only contains three banana skins and a few fish bones.…”

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The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds

Sánchez

2008

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This paper reports on ongoing work on a large sample of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish. After a brief characterization of bahuvrihi compounds, distinguishing them from a similar type of exocentric compounds (V+O compounds), the goal of the paper is clearly stated, namely to answer a number of questions, especially these two: (a) Does the metonymy CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTY FOR CATEGORY motivate the exocentric nature of all the compounds in the sample?; (b) Are other metonymies or metaphors also involved? If so, which are the metonymic or metaphoric patterns observable in conceptualizations underlying these compounds? The bulk of the paper is devoted to the detailed conceptual analysis of a large set of representative bahuvrihis in both languages. The results show that the above metonymy is responsible for the exocentric nature of all the compounds in the sample and that the characteristic property mapped by that metonymy is conceptualized in one of these three ways: literally, metonymically or metaphorico-metonymically. These three conceptualization patterns constitute the three major types of bahuvrihis in both languages; various further subtypes are proposed for each type. The paper ends with some tentative remarks on the Cognitive Grammar representation of the semantic structure of these compounds, on the connection between their semantic structure and their grammar and prosody, on a blending account of these lexemes, and on the contrasts identified between both languages.

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The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds

Sánchez

2008

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“…For example, Panther & Thornburg (2002;2009) show how metonymy can serve important illocutionary functions, both Al Sharafi 2004and Brdar-Szabó and Brdar (2011) demonstrate that it plays an important role in text cohesion and coherence, and Gradečak-Erdeljić (2004) shows that it can play an important role in euphemism. Barcelona (2003) explores the use of metonymy in jokes, while Tabacaru and Feyaerts (2014), who looked at different linguistic devices underlying humour in the scripted television show, "The Big Bang Theory", found metonymy to be the most prevalent device. Deignan et al (2013) found that, along with metaphor, the use of metonymy contributed to discourse community membership both amongst staff working in a children's day nursery and parents supporting a children's football club.…”

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Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy

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2016

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“…La métonymie a été traitée comme le parent pauvre de la métaphore dans la littérature cognitiviste, bien qu'elle soit aujourd'hui considérée comme primordiale par la linguistique cognitive (Barcelona 2003 ;Taylor 2003). Panther et Radden (1999) sont d'avis que la métonymie est une entité encore plus importante dans la constitution du sens que la métaphore :…”

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La démarche de l’expert-traducteur face à un problème de reformulation

Rydning

2009

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RésuméDans quels cas et pour quelles raisons l’expert-traducteur ressent-il un blocage dans la phase de reformulation ? Comment s’y prend-il pour débloquer la situation ? Une analyse des donnéesin vivode trois professionnelles norvégiennes de la traduction aux prises avec trois énoncés extraits d’un texte original français permet de montrer que la visualisation du sens joue un rôle essentiel dans la démarche cognitive de déblocage.

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The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing

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The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds

The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds

Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy

La démarche de l’expert-traducteur face à un problème de reformulation

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