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Metonymy in Language and Thought
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 188.00Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a “figure of thought,” underlying... more...
Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and ? mediated through cognition ? by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic... more...
Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 149.00Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present... more...
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 165.00In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest... more...
Motivation in Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 195.00This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ?Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?? The greater part of the papers (Sections 1?3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between... more...
From Space to Time
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 143.00Since Cora is a language on the verge of extinction, this research monograph is undoubtedly the last chance of reading a thorough analysis of the emergence of its grammaticalized locative forms, coupled with a comprehensive account of the extensions from the locative domain to the domain of time. Having spent many years doing fieldwork among Cora speakers,... more...
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