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Author Goossens, Louis

Title By Word of Mouth : Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1995

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Contents BY WORD OF MOUTH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; A Survey of Metalinguistic Metaphors; Body Parts in Linguistic Action: Underlying Schemata and Value Judgements; Assessing Linguistic Behaviour: A Study of Value Judgements; Levels of Metaphorization: The Case of Put; Metaphtonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action; From Three Respectable Horses' Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base; Metaphor, Schema, Invariance: The Case of Verbs of Answering
Summary 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 degree
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Subject Cognitive grammar.
Metaphor.
Metonyms.
Pragmatics.
Values.
Metaphor
metaphor.
metonymy.
pragmatics.
Cognitive grammar
Metaphor
Metonyms
Pragmatics
Values
Form Electronic book
Author Pauwels, Paul
Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida
Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie
Vanparys, Johan
ISBN 9789027282712
9027282714
1283222086
9781283222082