Metonymy in Language and Thought

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John Benjamins, 1999. — ix, 423 pages. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN 90 272 2356 4; ISBN 1 55619 204 5.Eighteen years after Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) seminal work on the role of metaphor in conceptualization, which sparked a vast amount of research in cognitive linguistics, it has become increasingly apparent that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. We believe that the contributions give a fair view of the state of the art in metonymic research, although we are also aware of the fact that a great many questions about metonymy still remain unanswered, some of which will be addressed below.ContentsIntroductionTheoretical Aspects of MetonymyTowards a Theory of MetonymySpeaking and Thinking with MetonymyMetonymy and Conceptual IntegrationDistinguishing Metonymy from SynecdocheAspects of Referential MetonymyHistorical Aspects of MetonymyFrame and Contiguity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word FormationCo-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of MetonymyMetonymic Bridges in Modal ShiftsMetonymy in OnomasticsCase Studies of MetonymyGrammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct ObjectPutting Metonymy in its PlaceConversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event SchemataOpposition as a Metonymic PrincipleMetonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic ExpressionsThe Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and HungarianApplications of Metonymy“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language AcquisitionRecontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison’s Song of Solomon