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Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues
Edited by Olga Blanco-Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain
[Human Cognitive Processing 60] 2018
► pp. 161–182

Chapter 6
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Reflections on conceptual metonymy

| Universität Hamburg

This chapter is concerned with the conceptual basis of metonymy. Particular attention is devoted to properties that are considered crucial to conceptual metonymy. The metonymic source has received little attention. However, it plays an important role as an element of the target and is given due attention. The notion of association is applied to metonymic interconnections, inference, and strength of association. A central element of metonymy is the notion of relation: However, neither contiguity nor indexicality adequately covers the range of metonymic relations. The paper argues that two more properties are pertinent to conceptual metonymy: a metonymic shift from a source concept to a complex metonymic target, and the conceptual integration of source and target and its resulting emergent meanings.

Keywords: association, conceptual integration, conceptual shift, metonymic relation, metonymic source, metonymic target
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Metonymic source and target
  • 3.Association
    • 3.1Co-activation
    • 3.2Inference
    • 3.3Strength of association
  • 4.Metonymic relation
    • 4.1Contiguity
    • 4.2Indexicality
  • 5.Metonymic shift
  • 6.Conceptual integration
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 17 May 2018
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