
Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Mixed media product
XI, 605 pages
978-3-11-173279-4 (ISBN)
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Description
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.
Reviews / Votes
"Dieses Buch ist ein unentbehrliches Werk fur alle, die auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung im Bereich der Metapher und der Metonymie sein wollen." (Sabine De Knop, Linguistische Berichte 196/2003)More details
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Edition
Reprint 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
ISBN-13
978-3-11-173279-4 (9783111732794)
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
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Persons
René Dirven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Duisburg, Germany.Ralf Pörings is Assistant Professor at the University of Essen, Germany.