The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian

Brdar, Mário; Brdar-Szabó, Rita

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“…We expected that political news might have a higher frequency of metonymically used capital names than others, because capital for government is a very conventional metonymy recognized by many previous researchers (e.g. Brdar & Brdar-Szabó, 2009;Milić & Vidaković 2007).…”

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“…Consult previous research on place names (e.g. , 2009Brdar & Brdar-Szabó, 2009;Halverson & Engene, 2010) for potential contiguous relationship candidates, such as a contiguous relationship between place and government or people or event etc. 3.…”

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“…According to Brdar-Szabó & Brdar (2003), "one of the most important discourse-pragmatic functions of metonymy is to enhance cohesion and coherence of the utterance" (p. 96). Further, Brdar (2007) and Brdar & Brdar-Szabó (2009) pointed out that one of several strategies to solve the problem of the preservation of the topic in the following discourse is to produce a whole string of repeatedly used metonymies. We designed a number of variables to detect the discursive function of metonymy, allowing different spans for the string of repeatedly used metonymies, like a sentence or a discourse.…”

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“…Also in line with the usage-based trend of Cognitive Linguistics, Brdar-Szabó & Brdar (2003), Brdar (2006), and Brdar & Brdar-Szabó (2009) explore the (non) metonymic use of place names from a cross-linguistic perspective. They analyze a specific referential metonymy, i.e.…”

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“…Inspired by the research of and Brdar & Brdar-Szabó (2009) and the appeal of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the present study aims to explore variation in (non)metonymic capital names in two of lectal varieties of Chinese, namely Mainland Chinese (MC) and Taiwan Chinese (TC), and to identify the factors influencing the variation.…”

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Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese

Zhang

Speelman²,

Geeraerts³

2011

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This paper examines the (non)metonymic usage of capital names in news articles from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from previous studies on place name metonymies in Cognitive Linguistics and identified factors that would influence their (non)metonymic usage. To quantitatively explore the data, logistic regression analysis was employed. The statistical results reveal that the variation in the (non)metonymic capital names is a result of an intricate interplay of a number of conceptual, lectal and discursive factors: (1) more metonymic capital names are found in subject than non-subject position and in political than non-political news topics; types of capital may influence their metonymic usage; (2) differences between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese cannot be ignored, especially for the interpretation of a specific metonymy, i.e. CAPITAL FOR GOVERNMENT; (3) the (non)metonymic usage of a capital name is also determined by its sequencing and location in discourse. We hope this study may shed some light on the usage-based trend of current Cognitive Linguistics, i.e. investigating metonymy in authentic linguistic data by a range of empirical methodologies.

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Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese

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Speelman²,

Geeraerts³

2011

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(Non)metonymic Expressions for government in Chinese: A Mixed-Effects Logistic Regression Analysis

Zhang

Geeraerts

Speelman

2018

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis

Brdar-Szabó

Brdar

2021

Figurative Thought and Language

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Given appropriate context, indeterminacy may arise when a metonymic vehicle, i.e. the source, can be simultaneously linked to more than one metonymic target. We claim that this situation, akin to the phenomenon of metalepsis or transgression in narratology, is not rare, but quite usual, and even regular in certain contexts. This may lead to an increase of a second-order type of anisomorphy, but ultimately leaves space for dynamic meaning construal and optimizes texts coherence. In order to accommodate metalepsis, we argue for an approach to metonymy not based on mappings but on the activation of the source conceptual cluster opening a mental space dynamically expanded or reduced so as to fit the conceptual frame provided by the co(n)text of use.

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The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian

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Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese

Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese

(Non)metonymic Expressions for government in Chinese: A Mixed-Effects Logistic Regression Analysis

Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis

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