TY - BOOK ID - 250891 TI - Metonymy and metaphor in grammar AU - Panther, Klaus-Uwe AU - Thornburg, Linda L. AU - Barcelona, Antonio PY - 2009 VL - 25 SN - 9789027223791 9789027289353 9027289352 9027223793 1282245295 9786612245299 9781282245297 6612245298 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Metonyms KW - Métaphore KW - --Metaphor. KW - Metonyms. KW - Metaphor. KW - Metaphor KW - Metonymy KW - Figures of speech KW - Parabole KW - Reification KW - --Metaphor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:250891 AB - Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings and forms. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in cognitive and functional linguistics, in particular, conceptual metonymy and metaphor theory, cognitive typology, and pragmatics. ER -