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Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension

Name: Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension
Author: Antonio Barcelona
ISBN: 9783111570310

by Antonio Barcelona

December 2024

Intermediate to advanced

609 pages

22h 55m

English

De Gruyter Mouton

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1 Goals. Research questions and hypotheses2 Justification of the research reported in this book3 The main theoretical approach: Cognitive linguistics3.1 Basic theoretical principles3.2 Main methodological principles in cognitive linguistics3.3 Applications4 The notion of metonymy4.1 Problems created by the standard cognitive linguistic notion of metonymy: Nature of source and target, referentiality, mapping, activation, and degrees of metonymic prototypicality4.2 Problems raised by the standard cognitive linguistic notion of metonymy: The distinction between metaphor and metonymy4.3 Problems raised by the standard cognitive-linguistic notion of metonymy: The typology of metonymy4.4 Final general (schematic) definitions of metonymy and metaphor4.5 The prototype structure of metonymy4.6 Types of metonymies included and excluded in the case studies reported in this book5 A brief survey of the role of metonymy in language and thought6 Methodology in the case studies included in this book6.1 Text selection criteria6.2 Structure of the case studies, analytical template, and notes on terminology6.3 Types of links in inferential and metonymic chains. Patterns in metonymic chaining6.4 Hierarchical levels in metonymy6.5 Qualitative studies6.6 Formal conventions and notation used throughout the case studies
Chapter 2 Case Studies A and B: Two short dialogues
1 Case Study A: At the gas station1.1 Text to be analyzed1.2 Analysis1.3 Chaining among the inference-guiding metonymies in this text1.4 On the notion of “salient part of constructional form”1.5 Summary of results of Case Study A2 Case Study B: Social clubs or sticks?2.1 Text to be analyzed2.2 Analysis2.3 Chaining among the inference-guiding metonymies in this text2.4 Summary of results of Case Study B
Chapter 3 Case Study C: Driving on Interstate 70 to the Rockies
1 Text to be analyzed1.1 Complete downloaded text1.2 The sentence analyzed in this case study2 Analysis2.1 Meaning2.2 Form3 Metonymy in the historical development of the meaning of ‘drive-verb’ occurring in the text under analysis3.1 The various senses of ‘drive-verb’ from which the sense “to guide a motor vehicle” emerged3.2 The role of the metonymies involved in the senses of ‘drive-verb’4 Metonymic chains identified in this study4.1 Metonymic chaining in the historical polysemy of ‘drive-verb’: Representation as an ordered list4.2 Metonymic chaining in the inferential work in the text5 Summary of results of Case Study C
Chapter 4 Case Study D: Getting to Mt Bethel and starting the hike
1 Text to be analyzed1.1 The paragraph analyzed in this case study2 Analysis2.1 Meaning2.2 Form3 Metonymy in the historical development of the meaning of the lexeme ‘pass (transitive verb)’ in the clause As you pass the base of this peak on the highway in sentence 43.1 The various senses of ‘pass (transitive verb)’ leading to the emergence of the sense represented in this text3.2 The role of the metonymy argued to be involved in the historical motivation of the relevant sense of the lexeme ‘pass (transitive verb)’ in the text under analysis4 Metonymic chains identified in this case study4.1 Chaining of motivational metonymies in the text4.2 Chaining of inferential metonymies in sentence (2)4.3 Outline of the chaining of inferential metonymies in the rest of the text4.4 Comments on the ordered lists in sections 4.2 and 4.34.5 The inferential sub-chains and their specific role in achieving discourse coherence in the paragraph under study: Their identification and brief description5 Summary of results of Case Study D5.1 An overview5.2 Relevance of the results for the first research goal: Confirmation of the hypotheses on multilevel operation and chaining patterns5.3 Relevance of the results for the second research goal: New metonymies or variants of known metonymies, and new grammatical or discourse areas where metonymy is involved
Chapter 5 Case Study E: Tyrone and Mary come on stage
1 Text to be analyzed1.1 The initial stage direction for Act One1.2 The fragment of the initial stage direction analyzed in this case study: Its last two sentences, i.e., from Tyrone’s arm to a playful hug2 Analysis2.1 Meaning2.2 Form3 Metonymy in the historical development of the phrasal quasi-determiner ‘a lot of’ / ‘lots of’ and the phrasal determiner ‘as much’3.1 The role of metonymy in the development of the quantifying quasi-determiner ‘a lot (of)’3.2 The role of metonymy in the development of the quantifying phrasal determiner ‘as much’4 Metonymic chaining in this text4.1 Chaining of motivational metonymies proposed for some of the constructions occurring in this text4.2 Chaining of inferential metonymies in the text4.3 Comment on the previous ordered list4.4 The inferential sub-chains and their specific role in achieving discourse coherence in the paragraph under study: Their identification and brief description5 Summary of results of Case Study E5.1 Overview5.2 Relevance of the results for the first research goal: Confirmation of the hypotheses on multilevel operation and chaining patterns5.3 Relevance of the results for the second research goal: New metonymies or variants of known metonymies, and new grammatical or discourse areas where metonymy is involved
Chapter 6 Conclusions: Overall discussion of the results of the case studies
1 Introduction2 Results concerning the first goal. Evidence for the two hypotheses proposed2.1 Evidence for the first hypothesis advanced in Chapter 12.2 Evidence for the second hypothesis advanced in Chapter 13 Results concerning the second goal of the case studies. New metonymies and grammatical and discourse phenomena where metonymy is involved. Taxonomic domains connected by metonymy3.1 New metonymies or new realizations of known metonymies3.2 The various types of taxonomic domains connected by metonymy as source and target3.3 New lexicogrammatical phenomena where metonymy has been claimed to be involved throughout the case studies3.4 Discourse and inference phenomena where metonymy has been claimed to be involved throughout the case studies4 Implications for cognitive linguistics and for general linguistic theory4.1 Confirmation of the pervasiveness of metonymy in conceptualization, linguistic structure, and communication4.2 Confirmation of the primarily inferential nature of metonymy4.3 Implications for descriptive models in cognitive linguistics and in other traditions5 The validity of these results6 Some directions for future researchAppendix 1: A qualitative study on some of the implicatures invited by the text analyzed in Case Studies C and DQuestionnaireContextual informationInstructionsAppendix 2 A qualitative study on some inferences invited by the text in case study EA DescriptionB Instruction sheet and questionnaireInstructionsQuestionnaire
References
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Chapter 1 Introduction

Note: The research reported in this book was fully funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIIN), the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through Project Grant PGC2018-101214-B-I00. And by two earlier projects granted by the same institutions. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers of the initial version of this book, whose comments have helped me to improve its content in some respects.

Metonymy has been found to operate in many types of constructional meaning and in many types of pragmatic inferencing, and it has been claimed to be ubiquitous (see e.g., Barcelona 2002b; Radden 2005). An illustrative set of examples is presented in section ...

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