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Metonyms --- Cognitive grammar

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"When you use a metonymy to say "I've got a new set of wheels," why do you refer to a car by means of the wheels rather any other part? Most cognitive linguist would agree that we prefer to talk about parts that are somehow salient, yet the seemingly simple notion of salience is entangled in a number of intricate problems related to how we understand and talk about the surrounding reality. Adopting the theoretic framework of Ronald Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, this volume studies deep and general cognitive factors governing salience effects that influence the ways we use conceptual metonymies in phonic and sign languages"--

Metonyms. --- Cognitive grammar.

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Pragmatics --- French language --- Metonyms --- -Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- -Metonyms --- Langue d'oïl --- French language - Metonyms

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Metonyms --- Cognitive grammar --- Metaphor --- Psychological aspects

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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.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Metonyms --- Métaphore --- --Metaphor. --- Metonyms. --- Metaphor. --- Metaphor --- Metonymy --- Figures of speech --- Parabole --- Reification --- --Metaphor