Metonymy in Language and Thought

Editors

Klaus-Uwe Panther | University of Hamburg

Günter Radden | University of Hamburg

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027223562 (Eur) | EUR 125.00

ISBN 9781556192043 (USA) | USD 188.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027299376 | EUR 125.00 | USD 188.00

Metonymy 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 much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models.
The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 4] 1999. vii, 410 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.4

Table of Contents

Introduction

Klaus-Uwe Panther | p. 1

Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy

Towards a Theory of Metonymy

Günter Radden and Zoltán Kövecses | pp. 17–59

Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy

Raymond W. Gibbs | p. 61

Metonymy and Conceptual Integration

Gilles Fauconnier | p. 77

Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche

Ken-ichi Seto | p. 91

Aspects of Referential Metonymy

Beatrice Warren | p. 121

Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy

frame and Cognity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word Formation

Peter Koch | p. 139

Co-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of Metonymy

Andreas Blank | p. 169

Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts

Louis Goossens | p. 193

Metonymy in Onomastics

Olaf Jäkel | p. 211

Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy

Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object

Richard Waltereit | p. 233

Putting Metonymy in its Place

Paul Pauwels | p. 255

Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata

René Dirven | p. 275

Opposition as a Metonymic Principle

Christian Vosshagen | p. 289

Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions

Kurt Feyaerts | p. 309

The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian

Klaus-Uwe Panther | p. 333

Part IV: Applications of Metonymy

“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language Acquisition

Brigitte Nerlich | p. 361

Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Anne Pankhurst | p. 385

List of Contributors | p. 401

Subject index | p. 405

Author index | p. 413

Metonymy and metaphor index | p. 419

“Overall, there is no doubt that the volume under review constitutes a primary resource which will help everyone working in the fields of cognitive linguistics and figurative language. It is well worth reading, and re-reading, because it offers a unique insight into the complexity of the issues underlying metonymix expressions.”

Mario Brdar in Suvremena Lingvistika Vol 27.1-2, 2001

“Seventeen first-rate papers present metonymy within a conceptual framework of scenarios, scenes, frames, domains, and idealized cognitive models (ICMs). The book concludes with a useful index of metonymies and metaphors.”

Kenneth A. McElhanon, Summer Institute of Linguistics, in Language Vol. 78.2, 2002

“[...] an important work in Metonymy research that must be consulted in any study of Metonymy [...]”

Latrin Mutz, Universität Saarland, Germany, in Metaphorik 06/2004

Cited by (109)

Cited by 109 other publications

Order by:

Muszytowska, Dorota

2024. Metaphtonymy of ἀστέρες πλανῆται in the Epistle of Jude 13 in the Light of the First Book of Enoch. The Biblical Annals 14:3 ► pp. 481 ff.

Prażmo, Ewelina

2024. “All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere. Linguistics Vanguard

Vancauwenbergh, Margot & Karlien Franco

2024. Women, blood, and dangerous things: socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation. Language and Cognition 16:2 ► pp. 505 ff.

孟, 志艺

2024. A Research on the Metonymy-Naming Mechanisms of China’s 23 Provinces from the Perspective of Philosophy of Language. Modern Linguistics 12:04 ► pp. 360 ff.

Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Olof Lundgren, Victor Bogren Svensson & Johan Frid

2023. The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift. Frontiers in Communication 8

Tsakuwa, Mustapha Bala, Xu Wen & Ibrahim Lamido

2023. A chained metonymic approach toίdὸ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa. Cognitive Linguistics 34:2 ► pp. 165 ff.

熊, 聪

2023. Metaphor and Metonymy Analysis of the Agent of “Create” Based on COCA Corpus. Modern Linguistics 11:10 ► pp. 4503 ff.

Broccias, Cristiano

2022. A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’. In Figurative Thought and Language in Action [Figurative Thought and Language, 16], ► pp. 37 ff.

D'Errico, Francesca, Concetta Papapicco & Mariona Taulé Delor

2022. ‘Immigrants, hell on board’. Journal of Language and Discrimination

Głogowska, Anna & Julia Ostanina-Olszewska

2022. Conceptualization of emotions in the novel The Slynxby Tatyana Tolstaya. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 18:2 ► pp. 267 ff.

Jiang, Liping, Ghayth K. Sh. Al-Shaibani, Fenglin Yang, Mengmeng Cheng & Minghuan Huang

2022. The metonymic mechanism of English translation of Chinese intangible cultural heritage terms from the perspective of cognitive psychology. Frontiers in Psychology 13

Muñoz, Carmen Portero

2022. Forty years of metonymy. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 ► pp. 172 ff.

Peña Cervel, Ma Sandra

2022. For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism. Metaphor and Symbol 37:3 ► pp. 229 ff.

Vilar Lluch, Sara

2022. Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour. Functions of Language 29:2 ► pp. 199 ff.

Apresjan, Valentina, Anastasiya Lopukhina & Maria Zarifyan

2021. Representation of Different Types of Adjectival Polysemy in the Mental Lexicon. Frontiers in Psychology 12

BOWERMAN, JOSEPHINE, INGRID LOSSIUS FALKUM & NAUSICAA POUSCOULOUS

2021. ‘The moustache’ returns: referential metonymy acquisition in adult learners of English as an additional language (EAL). Language and Cognition 13:2 ► pp. 254 ff.

Coschignano, Serena

2021. The semantic network of temperature. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1 ► pp. 232 ff.

Jin, Shengxi, Zhengjun Lin & Todd Oakley

2021. Translating Metaphtonymy: Exploring Trainee Translators' Translation Approaches and Underlying Factors. Frontiers in Psychology 12

Li, Ke & Shukang Li

2021. Towards A Better Understanding of Metonymy. Metaphor and Symbol 36:3 ► pp. 146 ff.

Piotrowska, Maria

2021. Voter Education for Women in Multiethnic Kenyan Society: The Case Study of 2017 General Elections. International Journal of African Studies 1:3 ► pp. 1 ff.

Szymańska, Monika

2021. Grammatical metonymy and construal operations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2 ► pp. 465 ff.

VALERA, SALVADOR & ALBA E. RUZ

2021. Conversion in English: homonymy, polysemy and paronymy. English Language and Linguistics 25:1 ► pp. 181 ff.

Winkler, Peter, Jannik Kretschmer & Michael Etter

2021. Between tragedy, romance, comedy and satire: narratives of axiological progress in public relations. Journal of Communication Management 25:4 ► pp. 353 ff.

Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla

2020. A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language. In Drawing Attention to Metaphor [Figurative Thought and Language, 5], ► pp. 39 ff.

Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla

2023. The semantics of a parallel reality. Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 ► pp. 81 ff.

DROŻDŻ, GRZEGORZ

2020. New insights into English count and mass nouns – the Cognitive Grammar perspective. English Language and Linguistics 24:4 ► pp. 833 ff.

Drożdż, Grzegorz

2022. Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research. In Figurativity and Human Ecology [Figurative Thought and Language, 17], ► pp. 251 ff.

Herrero-Ruiz, Javier

2020. On Some Pragmatic Effects of Event Metonymies. Metaphor and Symbol 35:4 ► pp. 266 ff.

KANETANI, MASARU

2020. <i>Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding</i>. ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 37:1 ► pp. 80 ff.

Kudła, Marcin

2020. A Multimodal View of Late Medieval Rhetoric: The Case of the White Rose of York. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 61:1 ► pp. 127 ff.

Lu, Wei-lun

2020. Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics. In Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13], ► pp. 141 ff.

Peng, Shuo

2020. Representaciones visuales de metáforas y metonimias de la temperatura en secadores de pelo. Itinerarios. Revista de estudios lingüísticos, literarios, históricos y antropológicos :31 ► pp. 251 ff.

Tsaroucha, Efthymia

2019. The Metonymicity of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics. Philosophies 4:3 ► pp. 51 ff.

Barcelona, Antonio, Olga Blanco Carrión & Rossella Pannain

2018. Introduction. In Conceptual Metonymy [Human Cognitive Processing, 60], ► pp. 1 ff.

Denroche, Charles

2018. Text metaphtonymy. Metaphor and the Social World 8:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Trousdale, Graeme

2018. Figurativeness in English grammar. In Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson [Studies in Language Companion Series, 204], ► pp. 311 ff.

Caballero, Rosario

2017. Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres. In Motion and Space across Languages [Human Cognitive Processing, 59], ► pp. 229 ff.

Caballero, Rosario

2019. Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor. In Perception Metaphors [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19], ► pp. 127 ff.

Colston, Herbert L.

2017. Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures. In Studies in Figurative Thought and Language [Human Cognitive Processing, 56], ► pp. 274 ff.

Colston, Herbert L.

2019. How Language Makes Meaning,

Dziedzic-Rawska, Alicja

2017. Expressing the Prison Self. In Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self [Second Language Learning and Teaching, ], ► pp. 63 ff.

Feng, William Dezheng

2017. Metonymy and visual representation: towards a social semiotic framework of visual metonymy. Visual Communication 16:4 ► pp. 441 ff.

Martin, Paul & Pam Papadelos

2017. Who stands for the norm? The place of metonymy in androcentric language. Social Semiotics 27:1 ► pp. 39 ff.

Mittelberg, Irene

2017. Embodied frames and scenes. Gesture 16:2 ► pp. 203 ff.

Mittelberg, Irene

2018. Gestures as image schemas and force gestalts: A dynamic systems approach augmented with motion-capture data analyses. Cognitive Semiotics 11:1

Mittelberg, Irene

2019. Visuo-Kinetic Signs Are Inherently Metonymic: How Embodied Metonymy Motivates Forms, Functions, and Schematic Patterns in Gesture. Frontiers in Psychology 10

Ostanina-Olszewska, Julia & Kristina S. Despot

2017. When “soul” is lost in translation: Metaphorical conceptions of “soul” in Dostoyevsky's original “Братья Карамазовы” (“The Brothers Karamazov”) and its translations into Polish, Croatian and English. Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives :17

PIQUER-PÍRIZ, ANA Mª

2017. Jeannette Littlemore. Metonymy: hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-107-04362-6 . Language and Cognition 9:3 ► pp. 568 ff.

PONTEROTTO, DIANE

2017. Motion for emotion: an empirical cross-linguistic study of conceptual construals. Language and Cognition 9:3 ► pp. 383 ff.

Rasulic, Katarina

2017. Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move. In Studies in Figurative Thought and Language [Human Cognitive Processing, 56], ► pp. 200 ff.

Rasulić, Katarina

2020. Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour. In The Language of Crisis [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87], ► pp. 111 ff.

Veloudis, Ioannis

2017. Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders. In Studies in Figurative Thought and Language [Human Cognitive Processing, 56], ► pp. 253 ff.

Piquer-Píriz, Ana María & Rafael Alejo-González

2016. Applying Cognitive Linguistics. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Reda, Ghsoon

2016. A Review of the Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Teaching the EFL/EIL Vocabulary. SSRN Electronic Journal

Yang, Ada Ya-ying & Shelley Ching-yu Depner

2016. Taboos in Animal Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese. In Embodiment in Language (II), ► pp. 75 ff.

Akita, Kimi

2015. Sound symbolism. In Handbook of Pragmatics,

Benczes, Réka

2015. “Cognitive Linguistics is fun”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 ► pp. 479 ff.

Jurewicz, Joanna

2015. U źródeł filozofii. Starożytna myśl indyjska w świetle lingwistyki kognitywnej. In Orientalistyka. Rozważania o nauce,

Rania, Nadia, Laura Migliorini, Stefania Rebora & Paola Cardinali

2015. Photovoice and Interpretation of Pictures in a Group Discussion: A Community Psychology Approach. Qualitative Research in Psychology 12:4 ► pp. 382 ff.

Athanasiadou, Angeliki

2014. Metaphors and metonymies for the (conceptualization and expression of the) state of no emotion in English and Greek. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Athanasiadou, Angeliki

2017. Chapter 6. If-clauses and their figurative basis. In Studies in Figurative Thought and Language [Human Cognitive Processing, 56], ► pp. 152 ff.

Athanasiadou, Angeliki

2017. Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar?. In Studies in Figurative Thought and Language [Human Cognitive Processing, 56], ► pp. 2 ff.

Barcelona, Antonio

2014. Bogusław Bierwiaczonek, Metonymy in language, thought and brain. Sheffield: Equinox, 2013. Pp. iv + 291.. Journal of Linguistics 50:3 ► pp. 712 ff.

Brdar, Mario & Rita Brdar-Szabó

2014. In search of motivation in language. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:1 ► pp. 223 ff.

Catalano, Theresa & John W. Creswell

2013. Understanding the Language of the Occupy Movement. Qualitative Inquiry 19:9 ► pp. 664 ff.

Cienki, Alan

2013. Bringing concepts from cognitive linguistics into the analysis of policies and the political. Journal of International Relations and Development 16:2 ► pp. 294 ff.

Villacañas, Beatriz & Michael White

2013. Pictorial metonymy as creativity source in “Purificación García” advertising campaigns. Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 ► pp. 220 ff.

Crisp, Peter

2012. The Pilgrim’s Progress: Allegory or novel?. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 21:4 ► pp. 328 ff.

Musolff, Andreas

2012. The study of metaphor as part of critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies 9:3 ► pp. 301 ff.

Sigrell, Anders

2012. ‘Whenever I put a black jacket on, I get dandruff ’. Education Inquiry 3:4 ► pp. 535 ff.

Bruce, Anne, Laurene Sheilds & Anita Molzahn

2011. Language and the (Im)possibilities of Articulating Spirituality. Journal of Holistic Nursing 29:1 ► pp. 44 ff.

Rapp, Alexander M. & Barbara Wild

2011. Nonliteral Language in Alzheimer Dementia: A Review. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 17:2 ► pp. 207 ff.

Riad, Sally & Eero Vaara

2011. Varieties of National Metonymy in Media Accounts of International Mergers and Acquisitions. Journal of Management Studies 48:4 ► pp. 737 ff.

Halverson, Sandra L. & Jan Oskar Engene

2010. Domains and Dimensions in Metonymy: A Corpus-Based Study ofSchengenandMaastricht. Metaphor and Symbol 25:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Massoussi, Taoufik & Salah Mejri

2010. Traitement automatique des métonymies. Revue française de linguistique appliquée Vol. XIV:2 ► pp. 43 ff.

Peña Cervel, M Sandra

2010. MacbethRevisited: A Cognitive Analysis. Metaphor and Symbol 26:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Schmidt, Peter

2010. The Play of Tropes in Archaeology. Ethnoarchaeology 2:2 ► pp. 131 ff.

Wengeler, Martin & Alexander Ziem

2010. „Wirtschaftskrisen“ im Wandel der Zeit. In Diskursiver Wandel, ► pp. 335 ff.

Borbely, Antal F.

2009. The Centrality of Metaphor and Metonymy in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 29:1 ► pp. 58 ff.

Emanatian, Michele & David Delaney

2008. What message does ‘send a message’ send?. Journal of Language and Politics 7:2 ► pp. 290 ff.

Yu, Ning

2008. Metaphor from Body and Culture. In The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought, ► pp. 247 ff.

Kosecki, Krzysztof

2007. On Multiple Metonymies within Indirect Speech Acts . Research in Language 5 ► pp. 213 ff.

Fauconnier, Gilles

2006. Cognitive Linguistics. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science,

Eubanks, Philip

2005. Globalization, "Corporate Rule," and Blended Worlds: A Conceptual-Rhetorical Analysis of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Conceptual Blending. Metaphor and Symbol 20:3 ► pp. 173 ff.

Eubanks, Philip

2008. An Analysis ofCorporate Rulein Globalization Discourse: Why We Need Rhetoric to Explain Conceptual Figures. Rhetoric Review 27:3 ► pp. 236 ff.

Fougner Rydning, Antin

2005. A la recherche d’un modèle explicatif du sens en traduction. FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation 3:1 ► pp. 103 ff.

Rydning, Antin Fougner

2005. Le défi du procédé synecdoquien en traduction. Meta 49:4 ► pp. 856 ff.

Rydning, Antin Fougner

2009. La démarche de l’expert-traducteur face à un problème de reformulation. Meta 53:4 ► pp. 748 ff.

Rydning, Antin Fougner

2014. La créativité traductionnelle – résultante d’une aptitude à visualiser. FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation 12:1 ► pp. 137 ff.

Fougner Rydning, Atin

2005. The Return of Sense on the Scene of Translation Studies in the Light of the Cognitive Blending Theory. Meta 50:2 ► pp. 392 ff.

Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Günter Radden

2005. Metonymy. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.

Verdonk, Peter

2005. Painting, poetry, parallelism: ekphrasis, stylistics and cognitive poetics. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 14:3 ► pp. 231 ff.

WEISS, DAVID

2005. Metonymy in Black and White: Shelby Steele's Revelatory Racial Tropes. Howard Journal of Communications 16:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Paradis, Carita

2004. Where Does Metonymy Stop? Senses, Facets, and Active Zones. Metaphor and Symbol 19:4 ► pp. 245 ff.

Steen, Gerard

2004. Introduction: Metaphor across languages. Journal of Pragmatics 36:7 ► pp. 1183 ff.

Fisher, Harwood

2003. Metonymy as concept: A metaphor for rhetoric, not for thought. Semiotica 2003:147

Markert, Katja & Malvina Nissim

2003. Corpus-Based Metonymy Analysis. Metaphor and Symbol 18:3 ► pp. 175 ff.

Panther, Klaus-Uwe

2003. Review of Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez & Otal Campo (2002): Metonymy, Grammar, and Communication. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 1 ► pp. 276 ff.

Panther, Klaus-Uwe

2012. Motivation in Language. In Cognition and Motivation, ► pp. 407 ff.

Tyler, Andrea & Vyvyan Evans

2003. The Semantics of English Prepositions,

Riemer, Nick

2002. Verb Polysemy and the Vocabulary of Percussion and Impact in Central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 22:1 ► pp. 45 ff.

Koch, Peter

2001. Bedeutungswandel und Bezeichnungswandel. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 31:1 ► pp. 7 ff.

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide & Brigitte Nerlich

2000. Metáfora y Conocimiento. Metaphor and Symbol 15:1 ► pp. 109 ff.

[no author supplied]

2014. Cognitive Modeling [Human Cognitive Processing, 45],

[no author supplied]

2014. The Spatial Language of Time [Human Cognitive Processing, 42],

[no author supplied]

2017. Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising [Figurative Thought and Language, 2],

[no author supplied]

2019. Reference Point and Case [Human Cognitive Processing, 68],

[no author supplied]

2019. Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21],

[no author supplied]

2022. Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics [Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4],

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 7 september 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects