Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures

Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

Edited by: Javier E. Díaz-Vera

Volume 52 in the series Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335453

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This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.

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Javier E. Díaz Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introductory chapter
Figuration and language history: Universality and variation Javier E. Díaz-Vera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Diachronic metaphor research
Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research Dirk Geeraerts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Conceptual variation and change
Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor Kathryn Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment Xavier Dekeyser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque Roslyn M. Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field Richard Trim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Figuration and grammaticalization
The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language Andrew D. M. Smith and Stefan H. Höfler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese Miao-Hsia Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts Wolfgang Schulze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Figurative language in culture variation
‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts Javier E. Díaz-Vera and Teodoro Manrique-Antón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis Dylan Glynn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English Juan Gabriel Vázquez González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 350
Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics; Figurative Language; Linguistic Change

eBook

Published: December 11, 2014
ISBN: 9783110335453

Hardcover

Published: November 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110335439

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110555097