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Metonymy in Frames: The Role of Functional Relations in Contiguity-Based Semantic Shifts of Nouns

Metonymy in Frames: The Role of Functional Relations in Contiguity-Based Semantic Shifts of Nouns

Terhalle, Anselm L.

Paperback

Series: Dissertations in Language and Cognition, Book 11

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110755289
ISBN13: 9783110755282
Publisher: Dusseldorf Univ Pr
Published: Dec 5 2022
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This work refines the notion of metonymy and the underlying notion of conceptual contiguity by describing a fundamental structural property of metonymy.

Studied since antiquity, metonymy is a ubiquitous mechanism of meaning construction in context that involves a linguistically coded source concept that directs attention to a situationally relevant target concept. Modelling metonymic contiguity by means of recursive attribute-value structures, inspired by findings from cognitive psychology, suggests that the metonymic relation depends largely on the functionality of the source with respect to the target.

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