
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 17. July 2003
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-58811-400-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
[...] 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)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-400-6 (9781588114006)
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