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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and LanguageEdited by Annalisa Baicchi
[Figurative Thought and Language 9] 2020
► pp. 283–308
The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | University of La Rioja
Alicia Galera Masegosa | University of Almería
This chapter accounts for the different outcomes
resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational
cognitive models (scenarios). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s
(2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step
further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive, attitudinal, and
regulatory types. It is our contention that the kind of scenario
involved constrains the inferential mechanisms activated at the
pragmatic levels, which are supported by metonymic activity in the
form of metonymic expansion plus metonymic reduction. How such
processes can motivate the various formal aspects of constructions
is discussed with reference to Kay and Fillmore’s (1999) well-known description of the
What’s X Doing Y? construction. This chapter
also shows the connections between Langacker’s profile-base
relations and the metonymic exploitation of the different kinds of
scenarios.
Keywords: metonymic chains, pragmatic inference, profile, base
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The Lexical Constructional Model (LCM)
- 3.Cognitive models
- 4.Cognitive operations: Metonymy and metonymic chains
- 4.1Metonymy: Expansion and reduction mechanisms
- 4.2Metonymic chains
- 5.Profile-base relations
- 6.Scenarios, metonymic activity and pragmatic inference
- 6.1Descriptive scenarios
- 6.2Attitudinal scenarios
- 6.3Regulatory scenarios
- 7.Concluding remarks
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Notes -
References
Published online: 12 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.9.12rui
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.9.12rui
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