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Online-Ressource (XIV, 368 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783110455830
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9783110453652
Series Statement:
Cognitive Linguistics Research Volume 49
Content:
This monograph provides new insights into variation in metonymy, focusing especially on changes of naming with respect to a particular concept. Its systematically designed and presented case studies delineate how both linguistic and cultural-social factors exert an influence on metonymic conceptualization, and demonstrate the importance of corpus data and quantitative methods in exploring and visualizing metonymic variation. Weiwei Zhang, Shanghai International Studies University, China.
Content:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARY -- 1 Demarcation and variability of metonymy -- 1.1 Conceptual metonymy -- 1.1.1 Definition/demarcation of metonymy -- 1.1.2 Internal typology of metonymy -- 1.1.3 The conventionalization of metonymy -- 1.2 Metonymy: A variationist CL view -- 1.2.1 The cross-linguistic dimension -- 1.2.2 The historical dimension -- 1.2.3 The lectal dimension -- 1.3 Metonymy: Semasiology and onomasiology -- 1.3.1 The semasiological perspective -- 1.3.2 The onomasiological perspective
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1.4 The methodological state of the art in metonymy research -- 1.4.1 Why CL research needs an empirical approach -- 1.4.2 Overview of methods in CL metonymy research -- 1.5 Summary: Research gaps -- 2 Metonymy in expressions -- 2.1 Models for analyzing figurative composite expressions -- 2.1.1 Compositionality and analyzability -- 2.1.2 Fauconnier and Turner's blending model -- 2.1.3 Benczes's analysis of noun-noun compounds -- 2.1.4 Geeraerts's prismatic model -- 2.2 Metonymic mappings in Chinese expressions
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2.2.1 Bringing the prismatic model to Chinese metonymic expressions -- 2.2.2 Various paths of metonymy in Chinese expressions -- 2.3 Some criteria for classification -- 2.3.1 Global metonymy versus parallel local metonymies -- 2.3.2 Internal metonymy versus external metonymy -- 2.3.3 Differentiation between alternative prismatic structures -- 2.4 Summary -- Part Two: CASE STUDIES -- 3 The cross-linguistic perspective: Metonymies for PERSON -- 3.1 Methodology -- 3.1.1 The Chinese data resources -- 3.1.2 The English data resource
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3.1.3 Summary of the methodology -- 3.2 Results -- 3.2.1 Variation in metonymic patterns for PERSON in general -- 3.2.2 Variation in metonymic patterns for different kinds of person -- 3.2.3 Variation in metonymic sources of a particular pattern -- 3.3 Discussion -- 3.3.1 Paragons in Chinese culture -- 3.3.2 The carriage-clothing system in Chinese culture -- 3.3.3 The residence system in Chinese culture -- 3.3.4 Culture-bound conceptualizations of body parts -- 3.3.5 Collectivism versus individualism -- 3.3.6 Section summary -- 3.4 Summary
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4 The diachronic perspective: Metonymies for WOMAN -- 4.1 Methodology -- 4.1.1 The Corpus of Historical Chinese -- 4.1.2 Metonymy identification -- 4.1.3 Metonymy quantification and analysis -- 4.2 Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns -- 4.2.1 Exploring and visualizing the data -- 4.2.2 Targets with relatively stable diachronic variation -- 4.2.3 Targets with a dominant trend in diachronic variation -- 4.2.4 Targets with highly fluctuating diachronic variation -- 4.2.5 Section summary -- 4.3 Interactions with stylistic variation
Content:
4.3.1 Stylistic variation in metonymic patterns
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Additional Edition:
9783110453522
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zhang, Weiwei Variation in metonymy Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016 9783110453522
Additional Edition:
3110453525
Language:
English
Keywords:
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