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Kövecses, Zoltán. 2005. Metaphor and metonymy in cognitive linguistics. In Turewicz, Kamila. Cognitive Linguistics - A User-friendly Approach. Szczecin, Poland: Szczecin University Press. pp. 13–34. 22 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Szczecin, Poland: Szczecin University Press
Abstract
My overall goal in this paper is to introduce the notion of metaphor to non-specialist students and the general reader. I try to accomplish this by setting three specific goals: (i) to offer a brief characterization of metaphor; (ii) to delineate metaphor from metonymy; and (iii) to show some of the ways in which metaphors can be classified. The general frame of reference that I use is that of cognitive linguistics, as it has been developed in the past twenty-five years by such figures as George Lakoff and Ronald Langacker.
(Zoltán Kövecses)