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This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration, autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions seek to ‘map’ the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.

Symbolism (Art movement) --- Life writing. --- autobiography. --- metaphor. --- metonymy.

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Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which people think creatively through metaphor and metonymy. 0This book offers the first large-scale study of a multimodal corpus of 210 advertisements. The reader is presented with a description of the corpus in terms of the distribution of conceptual operations (for the purposes of this work, metaphor and metonymy) and use of modal cues. Subsequently, the weight of mode and marketing strategy to trigger more or less amounts of conceptual complexity is analyzed. This corpus-based survey is complemented with the qualitative analysis of three novel metaphor-metonymy interactions that stem from the data and that have not yet been surveyed in multimodal use. The results show that metaphtonymy (a metaphor-metonymy compound) is the most frequet conceptual operation in the corpus; that there is a significant effect of the use of modes in the activation of different amounts of conceptual complexity; and that the type of advertised product and the marketing strategy has no significant effect on the number and complexity of conceptual mappings in the advertisement.

Metaphor. --- Metonyms. --- Advertising --- Metonymy --- Figures of speech --- Parabole --- Reification --- Language. --- Advertising. Public relations --- Lexicology. Semantics

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In der Forschung der letzten Jahre ist das Interesse an den rhetorischen Figuren Metapher und Metonymie neu erwacht, und es ist versucht worden, diese Figuren bzw. die ihnen zugrundeliegenden Assoziationstypen Similarität und Kontiguität als weitreichendes Prinzip sprachlicher Organisation zu begreifen. Hieran anknüpfend zeigt der Autor, daß der Mechanismus der Metonymie (z.B. lire Proust 'ein Buch von Proust lesen') sich für eine Vielzahl satzsemantischer Erscheinungen des Französischen als relevantes und erklärungsmächtiges Prinzip erweist. In dependenzgrammatischer Perspektive wird zunächst dargelegt, wie Kontiguitätsphänomene in der Valenz französischer Verben lexikalisiert sind, insbesondere wie metonymische Relationen Polysemiemuster erschließen. Sodann werden Beschränkungen für die metonymische Besetzung verbaler Leerstellen untersucht. Hier erlauben besonders die Reflexivkonstruktionen und die reflexiven Verben sowie die Pertinenzkonstruktionen einen neuartigen Zugriff, der Alternativen zu bisher nur unbefriedigenden Lösungsvorschlägen aufzeigt. Sowohl die lexikalisierten als auch die an bestimmte Leerstellen gebundenen Phänomene belegen schließlich einen Primat des direkten Objekts für metonymische Prozesse.

Metonymie --- Metonymieën --- Metonyms --- Metonymy --- Métonymie --- Métonymies --- Lexicology. Semantics --- French language --- Sentences --- Semantics --- Metonyms. --- Style. --- Discourse analysis. --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages

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Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time, the study of linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the key cognitive processes of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, which have proven to be highly influential in linguistic conceptualization. Theoretical and methodological issues, such as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding of metaphor, are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the explanatory potential of these theories, build bridges between them, link them with other approaches and notions (such as construction grammar, common ground and stance/evaluation), and uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments, analyses of data culled from authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches.

Creativity (Linguistics) --- Metaphor. --- Metonyms. --- Metonymy --- Figures of speech --- Parabole --- Reification --- Creative ability (Linguistics) --- Linguistic creativity --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Semantics.

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The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other contributions focus on the crucial role played by metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction at a discourse/textual level. Finally, the volume also includes proposals which revolve around the alleged universal nature of metaphorical mappings and their suitability to account for grammatical phenomena.The contributions in this volume display an ample gamut of theoretical approaches pointing to the viability of taking a functional-cognitive stance on the analysis of metaphor and metonymy in contrast to a purely cognitive one.This book is structured into three major sections: i) the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: revisions and recent developments; ii) metaphor and/or metonymy across different discourse/genre types; and iii) the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: current applications.

Metaphor --- Metonyms --- Cognitive grammar --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Literature - General --- Metaphor. --- Metaforen. --- Metonymie. --- Discoursanalyse. --- Metonyms. --- Discourse analysis. --- Métaphore --- Métonymie --- Linguistique cognitive --- Sémantique --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Linguistique cognitive. --- Sémantique. --- Métaphore. --- Métonymie. --- Metonymy --- Figures of speech --- Parabole --- Reification