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Angeliki
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored include metaphor, metonymy and their relationship to each other, as well as the less studied figure of hyperbole and its relation to the fundamental figures of metaphor and metonymy. Collectively, the papers examine the pragmatic reasoning processes triggered by figurative thought, the lexicogrammatical motivations and/or constraints on figurative language, the impact of deeply entrenched figurative thought on the lexicon of natural languages, the cultural origins of figurative thought, and the psycholinguistic motivations for figuration. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on figurative thought and language, particularly on questions of universality vs. specificity of figuration, the impact of figuration on constructions, cross-linguistic comparisons of figurative language, and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to figurative meaning.
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Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar?
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Angeliki Athanasiadou
Athanasiadou, Angeliki
Angeliki
Athanasiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Part I. Figuration and grammar
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Chapter 1. Exploiting<i>wh</i>-questions for expressive purposes
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A01
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Panther, Klaus-Uwe
Klaus-Uwe
Panther
University of Hamburg
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A01
Linda L. Thornburg
Thornburg, Linda L.
Linda L.
Thornburg
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conceptual compression
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conceptual decompression
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conventionalization
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metonymically motivated inference
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source and target senses
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<abstract>
This chapter offers a conceptual-pragmatic analysis of the construction<i>Wh-x do you think [<sub>
<sc>complement clause</sc>
</sub>…]</i>, which exhibits the morphosyntactic form of<i>wh-</i>interrogative sentences and may indeed be used with a question meaning, but in many contexts functions as a highly expressive speech act (of e.g. strong disapproval). We argue that the expressive sense (target) of the construction is derivable from the (literal) question meaning (source) via a series of metonymically motivated steps. In terms of Fauconnier’s and Turner’s conceptual integration theory, the expressive target meaning can be regarded as the result of conceptual compression. Notwithstanding, “decompression” is always possible, i.e., despite the high degree of conventionalization of the expressive sense, the literal question reading remains cognitively accessible.
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Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole
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María Sandra Peña-Cervel
Peña-Cervel, María Sandra
María Sandra
Peña-Cervel
University of La Rioja
2
A01
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José
Francisco José
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
University of La Rioja
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cognitive operations
20
constraints
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cross-domain mapping
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figurative expressions of emotions
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inference-based and construction-based hyperbole
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<abstract>
Hyperbole has received little attention in Cognitive Linguistics, while studies within psychology and pragmatics leave aside its representational aspects. To fill this gap, this chapter looks into linguistic evidence of the cognitive operations that underlie its communicative impact. Following up on recent research on figurative thought in terms of cross-domain mappings (e.g.Ruiz de Mendoza 2014), this chapter provides further evidence for an analysis of hyperbole in such terms. It offers a critical account of existing taxonomies of this phenomenon, argues for a twofold distinction between inference-based and constructional hyperbole, and discusses the usually hyperbolic<i>X is not Y but Z</i>and ‘God-related’ constructions. Finally, the chapter contends that hyperbole is regulated by the joint activity of two sets of constraints.
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Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse
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Annalisa Baicchi
Baicchi, Annalisa
Annalisa
Baicchi
University of Pavia
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illocutionary constructions
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indirect illocutions
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interrogative sentence type
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Thinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking (TFMS) process
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<abstract>
This chapter addresses the role of figurative thought at the level of discourse and investigates the metonymic grounding of interpersonal communication. With the focus placed upon illocutionary constructions realized through the interrogative sentence type, it aims to delineate the way in which conceptual metonymy contributes to moulding indirect illocutions. The research is conducted under the umbrella of the<i>Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model</i>, which conceives of illocutions as entrenched, productive and replicable form-function pairings. The qualitative analysis of attested corpus data retrieved from the<sc>bnc</sc>, the<sc>coca</sc>, and the WebCorp provides a depiction of the variety and complexity of some constructional procedures along with the socio-cultural variables licensing them, and it prompts the proposal of a<i>Thinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking</i>(TFMS) process that motivates illocutionary indirectness.
</abstract>
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Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek
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Evgenia Vassilaki
Vassilaki, Evgenia
Evgenia
Vassilaki
University of Thessaly
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directive Idealized Cognitive Model
20
grounding
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optionality
20
proximal/distal metaphor
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<abstract>
The chapter attempts to account for conventionalized request realization patterns in Modern Greek and the semantic motivation behind their conventionalization in particular uses. It adheres to recent formulations within Cognitive Linguistics regarding illocutionary meaning as emerging from the co-activation of higher order cognitive structures from linguistically codified patterns and from information available in the context of the interaction. It further argues for the conceptual prominence of the optionality attribute in the request Idealized Cognitive Model, exploring the ways it is linguistically safeguarded in language use. The semantic import of optionality can be best described in terms of the proximity vs. distance to reality metaphor as effected through the grounding specifications of the proposition in Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar.
</abstract>
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Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact
Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective
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A01
Mario Brdar
Brdar, Mario
Mario
Brdar
University of Osijek and ELTE, Budapest
2
A01
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Brdar-Szabó, Rita
Rita
Brdar-Szabó
University of Osijek and ELTE, Budapest
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anti-associative plural
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clipping
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collective noun
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genitive construction
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word-formation
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<abstract>
It is often assumed that the relationship between metonymy and grammar is one-way traffic. By applying a cross-linguistic perspective in studying the relationship between grammar and metonymy to the example of so-called embellished clippings and local genitive constructions (arising via an anti-associative-like stage) we demonstrate that whether a certain type of metonymy is available in a given language is dependent on the ecological conditions present in the system (including its word-formation system). The relationship between grammar and metonymy is quite complex: it often involves genuine two-way interaction, and it is often a whole cluster of interrelated structural facts that can formally align potential metonymic source expressions and thus facilitate or, conversely, pre-empt the application of a given metonymy.
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Chapter 6. <i>If</i>-clauses and their figurative basis
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Angeliki Athanasiadou
Athanasiadou, Angeliki
Angeliki
Athanasiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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conditional constructions
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course of eventness
20
hypotheticality
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metaphor
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metonymy
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<abstract>
The objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that the cognitive processes of metaphor and metonymy may determine the form of grammatical constructions and may be responsible for the elaboration of their meaning. The positions that constitute the framework in the chapter are: (a) both cognitive processes interact and pave the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions; (b) metonymy, being subliminal, seems to be more ubiquitous than metaphor, the latter process being most of the times based on preexisting metonymy; (c) each of the two processes operates differently encouraging the use of lexical items from the domain of conditionality. Both figurative processes, it will be claimed, contribute to broadening our understanding of grammar.
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Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language
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Ad Foolen
Foolen, Ad
Ad
Foolen
Radboud University Nijmegen
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Dutch
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enactive embodiment
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hand
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laterality
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numerals
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<abstract>
The hand is a rich source of figurative language. The paper claims that this richness has to do with the central role of the hand in human active involvement in the world. This claim fits recent developments in phenomenological philosophy, according to which cognition is based on enactive embodiment. The empirical part of the paper uses examples from Dutch and other languages, both on the lexical and the phraseological level. It turns out that most figurative uses of the words for ‘hand’ are of the metonymic type. Special attention is given to the target domain of numerals. Finally, it is shown that laterality plays a role: The right hand is used in figurative expressions with a positive connotation, whereas the left hand leads to expressions with a negative connotation.
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Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move
Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian
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Katarina Rasulić
Rasulić, Katarina
Katarina
Rasulić
University of Belgrade
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conceptual metonymy
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cross-linguistic
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humans as metonymic targets
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humans as metonymic vehicles
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metonymic portrayal of humans
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<abstract>
This chapter explores human-related conceptual metonymies in English and Serbian. Highlighting the shared metonymic mappings involving human beings as targets (<sc>x for human</sc>) and vehicles (<sc>human for x)</sc>and the similarities/differences in their lexical and grammatical realization in the two languages, the analysis shows that concepts from the human domain are readily recruited both as targets and as vehicles of metonymic mappings, whereby preferences towards particular kinds of human-related concepts as vehicles or targets outweigh language-specific differences, yielding a rather consistent metonymic portrayal of humans in English and Serbian. The analysis is followed by a discussion of the diagnostic potential of human-related metonymies for content-based cross-linguistic study of conceptual metonymy.
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Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification
The case of<sc>completion is up</sc>and the polysemy of<i>shàng</i>in Chinese
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A01
Wei-lun Lu
Lu, Wei-lun
Wei-lun
Lu
Masaryk University
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perfective aspect
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resultative constructions
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semantic network
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subjectivity
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verbal complement
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<abstract>
This chapter addresses the relation between conceptual metaphor, conceptual archetype and subjectivity. I start by examining the polysemy of<i>shàng</i>in Chinese, given the working of<sc>completion is up</sc>on its semantics. In this chapter, I sketch a possible route of semantic extension of<i>shàng</i>and argue that its synchronic distribution is symptomatic of semantic attenuation and subjectification. I also propose an image-schematic structure for each of the relevant senses of<i>shàng</i>identified. With such analysis, I identify<sc>vertical elevation</sc>and<sc>contact</sc>as two important conceptual archetypes that may help understand the semantic extension and how<sc>completion is up</sc>is actually at work on the semantics of<i>shàng</i>.
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Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
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Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders
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Ioannis Veloudis
Veloudis, Ioannis
Ioannis
Veloudis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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association
20
contiguity
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exaggeration
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imaginative departure
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similarity
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<abstract>
Langacker (1987: 469) remarks that “the asymmetry of an ‘event’ detected against an established background is fundamental to cognitive organization and not at all peculiar to language. It recalls not only figure/ground alignment […] but also the more general point that novel experience is structured and interpreted with reference to previous experience”. In this paper I argue that metaphor and metonymy are in a sense, if not par excellence, fanciful “asymmetry”-builders: their pertinent characteristic, i.e.<i>association</i>in terms of similarity and contiguity, always warrants that “novel experiences” (targets) are safely structured and interpreted with reference to “previous experiences” (sources); in other words, it always ensures that the imaginative, playful departure from an "established background" will not lead us astray.
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Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures
The case of metaphtonymy
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A01
Herbert L. Colston
Colston, Herbert L.
Herbert L.
Colston
University of Alberta
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figurative language
20
figure blends
20
hyperbole
20
metaphor
20
metonymy
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oxymora
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pragmatics
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synecdoche
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verbal irony
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<abstract>
Issues concerning pragmatic effects resulting from blends of figurative language forms are considered. Different resulting patterns in such blends are approached first through deconstruction of pragmatic effects in individual figures such as metaphor, synecdoche, broader metonymy, verbal irony and others. How blends of those figures can then afford cancellation, facilitation, combination and other outcomes for their corralled pragmatic effects is then demonstrated from previous research and consideration of blended figurative examples, most prominently blends of metaphor and metonymy, or metaphtonymy. A call for further research and delineation of some specific issues warranted by such an exploration is then offered.
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Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors
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Panos Athanasopoulos
Athanasopoulos, Panos
Panos
Athanasopoulos
Lancaster University
2
A01
Steven Samuel
Samuel, Steven
Steven
Samuel
University of Cambridge
3
A01
Emanuel Bylund
Bylund, Emanuel
Emanuel
Bylund
Stockholm University
20
duration estimation
20
experimental cognitive linguistics
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time perception
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<abstract>
Time provides essential structure to human experience. This chapter reviews the available empirical evidence for a fundamental metaphoric structure such as<sc>time is space</sc>in figurative language and thought. The chapter is organized into three over-arching themes:<i>Motion through time, temporal succession</i>, and<i>duration estimation</i>. A large part of the experimental evidence lends support to the psychological reality of the<sc>time is space</sc>metaphor, revealing the inextricable link between conceptual metaphor in language and time perception. The review also reveals that linguistic space-time mappings may be overridden by cultural conventions, calling for further empirical cross-linguistic and cross-cultural exploration within experimental cognitive linguistics.
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored include metaphor, metonymy and their relationship to each other, as well as the less studied figure of hyperbole and its relation to the fundamental figures of metaphor and metonymy. Collectively, the papers examine the pragmatic reasoning processes triggered by figurative thought, the lexicogrammatical motivations and/or constraints on figurative language, the impact of deeply entrenched figurative thought on the lexicon of natural languages, the cultural origins of figurative thought, and the psycholinguistic motivations for figuration. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on figurative thought and language, particularly on questions of universality vs. specificity of figuration, the impact of figuration on constructions, cross-linguistic comparisons of figurative language, and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to figurative meaning.
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Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar?
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Angeliki Athanasiadou
Athanasiadou, Angeliki
Angeliki
Athanasiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Part I. Figuration and grammar
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Chapter 1. Exploiting<i>wh</i>-questions for expressive purposes
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Klaus-Uwe Panther
Panther, Klaus-Uwe
Klaus-Uwe
Panther
University of Hamburg
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Linda L. Thornburg
Thornburg, Linda L.
Linda L.
Thornburg
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conceptual compression
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conceptual decompression
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conventionalization
20
metonymically motivated inference
20
source and target senses
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<abstract>
This chapter offers a conceptual-pragmatic analysis of the construction<i>Wh-x do you think [<sub>
<sc>complement clause</sc>
</sub>…]</i>, which exhibits the morphosyntactic form of<i>wh-</i>interrogative sentences and may indeed be used with a question meaning, but in many contexts functions as a highly expressive speech act (of e.g. strong disapproval). We argue that the expressive sense (target) of the construction is derivable from the (literal) question meaning (source) via a series of metonymically motivated steps. In terms of Fauconnier’s and Turner’s conceptual integration theory, the expressive target meaning can be regarded as the result of conceptual compression. Notwithstanding, “decompression” is always possible, i.e., despite the high degree of conventionalization of the expressive sense, the literal question reading remains cognitively accessible.
</abstract>
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Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole
1
A01
María Sandra Peña-Cervel
Peña-Cervel, María Sandra
María Sandra
Peña-Cervel
University of La Rioja
2
A01
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José
Francisco José
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
University of La Rioja
20
cognitive operations
20
constraints
20
cross-domain mapping
20
figurative expressions of emotions
20
inference-based and construction-based hyperbole
01
<abstract>
Hyperbole has received little attention in Cognitive Linguistics, while studies within psychology and pragmatics leave aside its representational aspects. To fill this gap, this chapter looks into linguistic evidence of the cognitive operations that underlie its communicative impact. Following up on recent research on figurative thought in terms of cross-domain mappings (e.g.Ruiz de Mendoza 2014), this chapter provides further evidence for an analysis of hyperbole in such terms. It offers a critical account of existing taxonomies of this phenomenon, argues for a twofold distinction between inference-based and constructional hyperbole, and discusses the usually hyperbolic<i>X is not Y but Z</i>and ‘God-related’ constructions. Finally, the chapter contends that hyperbole is regulated by the joint activity of two sets of constraints.
</abstract>
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Chapter
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Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse
1
A01
Annalisa Baicchi
Baicchi, Annalisa
Annalisa
Baicchi
University of Pavia
20
illocutionary constructions
20
indirect illocutions
20
interrogative sentence type
20
Thinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking (TFMS) process
01
<abstract>
This chapter addresses the role of figurative thought at the level of discourse and investigates the metonymic grounding of interpersonal communication. With the focus placed upon illocutionary constructions realized through the interrogative sentence type, it aims to delineate the way in which conceptual metonymy contributes to moulding indirect illocutions. The research is conducted under the umbrella of the<i>Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model</i>, which conceives of illocutions as entrenched, productive and replicable form-function pairings. The qualitative analysis of attested corpus data retrieved from the<sc>bnc</sc>, the<sc>coca</sc>, and the WebCorp provides a depiction of the variety and complexity of some constructional procedures along with the socio-cultural variables licensing them, and it prompts the proposal of a<i>Thinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking</i>(TFMS) process that motivates illocutionary indirectness.
</abstract>
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124
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Chapter
8
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Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek
1
A01
Evgenia Vassilaki
Vassilaki, Evgenia
Evgenia
Vassilaki
University of Thessaly
20
directive Idealized Cognitive Model
20
grounding
20
optionality
20
proximal/distal metaphor
01
<abstract>
The chapter attempts to account for conventionalized request realization patterns in Modern Greek and the semantic motivation behind their conventionalization in particular uses. It adheres to recent formulations within Cognitive Linguistics regarding illocutionary meaning as emerging from the co-activation of higher order cognitive structures from linguistically codified patterns and from information available in the context of the interaction. It further argues for the conceptual prominence of the optionality attribute in the request Idealized Cognitive Model, exploring the ways it is linguistically safeguarded in language use. The semantic import of optionality can be best described in terms of the proximity vs. distance to reality metaphor as effected through the grounding specifications of the proposition in Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar.
</abstract>
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hcp.56.05brd
126
149
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Chapter
9
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Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact
Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective
1
A01
Mario Brdar
Brdar, Mario
Mario
Brdar
University of Osijek and ELTE, Budapest
2
A01
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Brdar-Szabó, Rita
Rita
Brdar-Szabó
University of Osijek and ELTE, Budapest
20
anti-associative plural
20
clipping
20
collective noun
20
genitive construction
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word-formation
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<abstract>
It is often assumed that the relationship between metonymy and grammar is one-way traffic. By applying a cross-linguistic perspective in studying the relationship between grammar and metonymy to the example of so-called embellished clippings and local genitive constructions (arising via an anti-associative-like stage) we demonstrate that whether a certain type of metonymy is available in a given language is dependent on the ecological conditions present in the system (including its word-formation system). The relationship between grammar and metonymy is quite complex: it often involves genuine two-way interaction, and it is often a whole cluster of interrelated structural facts that can formally align potential metonymic source expressions and thus facilitate or, conversely, pre-empt the application of a given metonymy.
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Chapter
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Chapter 6. <i>If</i>-clauses and their figurative basis
1
A01
Angeliki Athanasiadou
Athanasiadou, Angeliki
Angeliki
Athanasiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20
conditional constructions
20
course of eventness
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hypotheticality
20
metaphor
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metonymy
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<abstract>
The objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that the cognitive processes of metaphor and metonymy may determine the form of grammatical constructions and may be responsible for the elaboration of their meaning. The positions that constitute the framework in the chapter are: (a) both cognitive processes interact and pave the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions; (b) metonymy, being subliminal, seems to be more ubiquitous than metaphor, the latter process being most of the times based on preexisting metonymy; (c) each of the two processes operates differently encouraging the use of lexical items from the domain of conditionality. Both figurative processes, it will be claimed, contribute to broadening our understanding of grammar.
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Section header
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Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
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Chapter
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Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language
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A01
Ad Foolen
Foolen, Ad
Ad
Foolen
Radboud University Nijmegen
20
Dutch
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enactive embodiment
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hand
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laterality
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numerals
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<abstract>
The hand is a rich source of figurative language. The paper claims that this richness has to do with the central role of the hand in human active involvement in the world. This claim fits recent developments in phenomenological philosophy, according to which cognition is based on enactive embodiment. The empirical part of the paper uses examples from Dutch and other languages, both on the lexical and the phraseological level. It turns out that most figurative uses of the words for ‘hand’ are of the metonymic type. Special attention is given to the target domain of numerals. Finally, it is shown that laterality plays a role: The right hand is used in figurative expressions with a positive connotation, whereas the left hand leads to expressions with a negative connotation.
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Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move
Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian
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A01
Katarina Rasulić
Rasulić, Katarina
Katarina
Rasulić
University of Belgrade
20
conceptual metonymy
20
cross-linguistic
20
humans as metonymic targets
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humans as metonymic vehicles
20
metonymic portrayal of humans
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<abstract>
This chapter explores human-related conceptual metonymies in English and Serbian. Highlighting the shared metonymic mappings involving human beings as targets (<sc>x for human</sc>) and vehicles (<sc>human for x)</sc>and the similarities/differences in their lexical and grammatical realization in the two languages, the analysis shows that concepts from the human domain are readily recruited both as targets and as vehicles of metonymic mappings, whereby preferences towards particular kinds of human-related concepts as vehicles or targets outweigh language-specific differences, yielding a rather consistent metonymic portrayal of humans in English and Serbian. The analysis is followed by a discussion of the diagnostic potential of human-related metonymies for content-based cross-linguistic study of conceptual metonymy.
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Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification
The case of<sc>completion is up</sc>and the polysemy of<i>shàng</i>in Chinese
1
A01
Wei-lun Lu
Lu, Wei-lun
Wei-lun
Lu
Masaryk University
20
perfective aspect
20
resultative constructions
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semantic network
20
subjectivity
20
verbal complement
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<abstract>
This chapter addresses the relation between conceptual metaphor, conceptual archetype and subjectivity. I start by examining the polysemy of<i>shàng</i>in Chinese, given the working of<sc>completion is up</sc>on its semantics. In this chapter, I sketch a possible route of semantic extension of<i>shàng</i>and argue that its synchronic distribution is symptomatic of semantic attenuation and subjectification. I also propose an image-schematic structure for each of the relevant senses of<i>shàng</i>identified. With such analysis, I identify<sc>vertical elevation</sc>and<sc>contact</sc>as two important conceptual archetypes that may help understand the semantic extension and how<sc>completion is up</sc>is actually at work on the semantics of<i>shàng</i>.
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Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
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Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders
1
A01
Ioannis Veloudis
Veloudis, Ioannis
Ioannis
Veloudis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
20
association
20
contiguity
20
exaggeration
20
imaginative departure
20
similarity
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<abstract>
Langacker (1987: 469) remarks that “the asymmetry of an ‘event’ detected against an established background is fundamental to cognitive organization and not at all peculiar to language. It recalls not only figure/ground alignment […] but also the more general point that novel experience is structured and interpreted with reference to previous experience”. In this paper I argue that metaphor and metonymy are in a sense, if not par excellence, fanciful “asymmetry”-builders: their pertinent characteristic, i.e.<i>association</i>in terms of similarity and contiguity, always warrants that “novel experiences” (targets) are safely structured and interpreted with reference to “previous experiences” (sources); in other words, it always ensures that the imaginative, playful departure from an "established background" will not lead us astray.
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Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures
The case of metaphtonymy
1
A01
Herbert L. Colston
Colston, Herbert L.
Herbert L.
Colston
University of Alberta
20
figurative language
20
figure blends
20
hyperbole
20
metaphor
20
metonymy
20
oxymora
20
pragmatics
20
synecdoche
20
verbal irony
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<abstract>
Issues concerning pragmatic effects resulting from blends of figurative language forms are considered. Different resulting patterns in such blends are approached first through deconstruction of pragmatic effects in individual figures such as metaphor, synecdoche, broader metonymy, verbal irony and others. How blends of those figures can then afford cancellation, facilitation, combination and other outcomes for their corralled pragmatic effects is then demonstrated from previous research and consideration of blended figurative examples, most prominently blends of metaphor and metonymy, or metaphtonymy. A call for further research and delineation of some specific issues warranted by such an exploration is then offered.
</abstract>
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Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors
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A01
Panos Athanasopoulos
Athanasopoulos, Panos
Panos
Athanasopoulos
Lancaster University
2
A01
Steven Samuel
Samuel, Steven
Steven
Samuel
University of Cambridge
3
A01
Emanuel Bylund
Bylund, Emanuel
Emanuel
Bylund
Stockholm University
20
duration estimation
20
experimental cognitive linguistics
20
time perception
01
<abstract>
Time provides essential structure to human experience. This chapter reviews the available empirical evidence for a fundamental metaphoric structure such as<sc>time is space</sc>in figurative language and thought. The chapter is organized into three over-arching themes:<i>Motion through time, temporal succession</i>, and<i>duration estimation</i>. A large part of the experimental evidence lends support to the psychological reality of the<sc>time is space</sc>metaphor, revealing the inextricable link between conceptual metaphor in language and time perception. The review also reveals that linguistic space-time mappings may be overridden by cultural conventions, calling for further empirical cross-linguistic and cross-cultural exploration within experimental cognitive linguistics.
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