Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads (Trends in Linguistics): A Cognitive Perspective (Topics in English Linguistics [tiel], 30)

__Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads__ is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and conceptual integration (blending). The book has two main goals. One of them is to discuss in new, provocative ways the nature of these conceptual mappings in English and their interaction. The other goal is to explore by means of several detailed case studies the central role of these mappings in English. The studies are, thus, concerned with the operation of metaphor and metonymy in discourse, including literary discourse or with the effect of metaphorical and/or metonymic mappings on some aspects of linguistic structure, be it polysemy or grammar. The book is of interest to students and researchers in English and linguistics, English literature, cognitive psychology and cognitive science. Acknowledgments Introduction. The cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy The interaction of metaphor and metonymy, and other theoretical issues On the plausibility of claiming a metonymic motivation for conceptual metaphor Refining the Inheritance Hypothesis: Interaction between metaphoric and metonymic hierarchies The scope of metaphor How metonymic are metaphors? The role of mappings and domains in understanding metonymy Metaphor, metonymy, and binding Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier Metaphor and metonymy in language structure and discourse Metaphor and metonymy in language structure Patterns of meaning extension, “parallel chaining”, subjectification, and modal shifts Metaphor in semantic change Straight from the heart – metonymic and metaphorical explorations The EFFECT FOR CAUSE metonymy in English grammar Metaphorical extension of may and must into the epistemic domain Metaphor and metonymy in discourse Poetry and the scope of metaphor: Toward a cognitive theory of literature The cohesive role of cognitive metaphor in discourse and conversation More metaphorical warfare in the Gulf: Orientalist frames in news coverage Muted metaphors and the activation of metonymies in advertising Author index Subject index The general approach to the study of language known today as cognitive linguistics has evolved as an essential part of a broader quest for a more satisfying account of the nature of human cognition in general and of linguistic meaning in particular; a quest in which a sizable group of cognitive scientists (i.e. linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, computer scientists, even literary critics) has been engaged since the mid-seventies, initially in the United States and shortly afterwards in Europe and, to a lesser extent, in other parts of the world. Main description: Written by some of the best known specialists, this collection of articles investigates in great detail a number of metaphorically and/or metonymically structured conceptual and linguistic domains and discusses in new, provocative ways the nature of these cognitive-linguistic mechanisms, their operation, and their interaction (First publ. in 2000 as vol. 30 of the series Topics in English Linguistics)