Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027223793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
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.