Full Description
This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored:
• Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain.
• The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding.
• The graded character of metaphoricity and its correlation with degrees of recoverability/salience.
• The interaction of metonymy and metaphor, e.g. the question what factors motivate the conventionalization of metonymies, which includes the perspective that conventionalized metaphors frequently have a metonymic origin.
• The role of image-schemata in the organization and development of a lexical subfield, which raises new questions on the nature of metaphor, the identification of source and target domains and the Invariance Hypothesis.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. A survey of Metalinguistic Metaphors (by Vanparys, Johan); 3. Body Parts in Linguistic Action: Underlying Schemata and Value Judgements (by Pauwels, Paul); 4. Assessing Linguistic Behaviour: A Study of Value Judgements (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 5. Levels of Metaphorization: The Case of Put (by Pauwels, Paul); 6. Metaphonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action (by Goossens, Louis); 7. From Three Respectable Horses' Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base (by Goossens, Louis); 8. Metaphor, Schema, Invariance: The Case of Verbs of Answering (by Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida); 9. References; 10. Subject Index
