The conventionality of figurative language: A usage-based study (Language in Performance) - Softcover

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9783823366249: The conventionality of figurative language: A usage-based study (Language in Performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3823366246 ISBN 13: 9783823366249
Verlag: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The book is the first in-depth study that aims to identify the conceptual rules and regularities underlying the (un)conventionality of figurative ways of speaking and reasoning. Using a combination of corpus-linguistic and cognitive-linguistic methods it investigates a large number of metonymies as well as metaphors, focusing on the former, less studied phenomenon. It provides an overview of their relative frequencies of occurrence in natural discourse and offers a systematic account of why some figurative expressions and/or conceptual mappings are preferred while others are less successful in the speech community and thus shape our language and thought to a lesser degree. Based on a critical examination of existing theories and material from the British National Corpus, the book points out similarities and differences between metonymy and metaphor as well as between different types of the two phenomena with regard to their conventionality and moreover demonstrates the value of usage-based studies for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise.

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Verlag
Gunter Narr Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3823366246
ISBN 13 
9783823366249
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
371
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
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