This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored:
Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain.
The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding.
The graded character of metaphoricity and its correlation with degrees of recoverability/salience.
The interaction of metonymy and metaphor, e.g. the question what factors motivate the conventionalization of metonymies, which includes the perspective that conventionalized metaphors frequently have a metonymic origin.
The role of image-schemata in the organization and development of a lexical subfield, which raises new questions on the nature of metaphor, the identification of source and target domains and the Invariance Hypothesis.
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia
Niederlande
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ISBN-13
978-90-272-8271-2 (9789027282712)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
