Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
Editors
In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars working in a pragmatic framework. Topics include the metonymic basis of explicature and implicature, the role of metonymically-based inferences in speech act and discourse interpretation, the pragmatic meaning of grammatical constructions, the impact of metonymic mappings on and their interaction with grammatical structure, the role of metonymic inferencing and implicature in linguistic change, and the comparison of metonymic principles across languages and different cultural settings.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 113] 2003. xi, 280 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | p. ix
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Acknowledgments | p. xi
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Introduction: On the nature of conceptual metonymyKlaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg | pp. 1–20
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Part I. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics
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Cognitive operations and pragmatic implicationFrancisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Lorena Pérez-Hernández | pp. 23–49
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Metonymy and conceptual blendingSeana Coulson and Todd Oakley | pp. 51–79
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The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing: Evidence from jokes and funny anecdotesAntonio Barcelona | pp. 81–102
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Part II. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure
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A construction-based approach to indirect speech actsAnatol Stefanowitsch | pp. 105–126
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Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas: The case of dependent clauses as independent speech actsKlaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg | pp. 127–147
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Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in GermanKlaus-Michael Köpcke and David A. Zubin | pp. 149–166
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Part III. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change
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The development of counterfactual implicatures in English: A case of metonymy or M-inference?Debra Ziegeler | pp. 169–203
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Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in JapaneseShigeko Okamoto | pp. 205–220
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Part IV. Metonymic inferencing across languages
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Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languagesGünter Radden and Ken-ichi Seto | pp. 223–239
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Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and HungarianMario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó | pp. 241–266
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Name index | pp. 267–269
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Metonymy and metaphor index | pp. 271–273
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Subject index | pp. 275–280
“[...] this book reaches its goal of establishing the significance of the topic of metonymy and pragmatic inferencing. As such, it belongs in the library of all serious scholars interested in metonymy.”
Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State University, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 13:2 (2005)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General