By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive PerspectiveThis volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain. The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding. The graded character of metaphoricity and its correlation with degrees of recoverability/salience. The interaction of metonymy and metaphor, e.g. the question what factors motivate the conventionalization of metonymies, which includes the perspective that conventionalized metaphors frequently have a metonymic origin. The role of image-schemata in the organization and development of a lexical subfield, which raises new questions on the nature of metaphor, the identification of source and target domains and the Invariance Hypothesis. |
Contents
A Survey of Metalinguistic Metaphors | 1 |
Underlying Schemata and Value Judgements | 35 |
A Study of Value Judgements | 71 |
The Case of Put | 125 |
The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action | 159 |
Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base | 175 |
The Case of Verbs of Answering | 205 |
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abstract Ælfric aspect behaviour body Chaucer chinwag clearly COBUILD cognitive linguistics con concepts conduit metaphor connotation context conventionalization conversation corpus denote describe diachronic Dictionary donor domain Dreedle element evaluation Example sentence extensions focus focused force Goossens hence image schemata image-schematic instance interaction interpretation involves Johnson Lakoff language user LDOCE linguistic action literal mapping meaning metalinguistic metaphor and metonymy metaphor from metonymy metaphorical expression metaphorisation Middle English movement negative value judgement nonverbal communication OALDCE one's tongue pattern phor positive or negative prototypical put one's foot question questionnaire recipient domain recoverable refer rejoin relevant rely reply responses retort role Rudzka-Ostyn salient scale scene secondary TR semantic someone someone's source domain speak speaker specific speech act structure synecdochic Table talk target domain tion typically utterance valued negatively variants verbal communication verbs of answering Webster's words Yossarian