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Title

Variation in metonymy : cross-linguistic, historical and lectal perspectives / Weiwei Zhang.

Author

Zhang, Weiwei (Linguist)

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
• ©2016

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Description

xiii, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cognitive linguistics research, 1861-4132 ; volume 59

Uniform Title

Cognitive linguistics research 59.

Alternative Title

Cross-linguistic, historical and lectal perspectives

Subject

• Metonyms
• Cognitive grammar
• Corpora (Linguistics)

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970-), 2013) under the title: Variation in metonymy : a corpus-based cognitive linguistic approach.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Theoretical Preliminary -- Demarcation and variability of metonymy -- Conceptual metonymy -- Definition, demarcation of metonymy -- Internal typology of metonymy -- The conventionalization of metonymy -- Metonymy : a variationist CL view -- The cross-linguistic dimension -- The historical dimension -- The lectal dimension -- Metonymy : semasiology and onomasiology -- The semasiological perspective -- The onomasiological perspective -- The methodological state of the art in metonymy research -- Why CL research needs an empirical approach -- Overview of methods in CL metonymy research -- Summary : research gaps -- Metonymy in expressions -- Models for analyzing figurative composite expressions -- Compositionality and analyzability -- Fauconnier and Turner's blending model -- Benczes's analysis of noun-noun Compounds -- Geeraerts's prismatic model -- Metonymie mappings in Chinese expressions -- Bringing the prismatic model to Chinese metonymic expressions -- Various paths of metonymy in Chinese expressions -- Some criteria for Classification -- Global metonymy versus parallel local metonymies -- Internal metonymy versus external metonymy -- Differentiation between alternative prismatic structures -- Summary -- Case studies -- The cross-linguistic perspective : metonymies for PERSON -- Methodology -- The Chinese data resources -- The English data resource -- Summary ofthe methodology -- Results -- Variation in metonymic patterns for PERSON in general -- Variation in metonymic patterns for different kinds of person -- Variation in metonymic sources of a particular pattern -- Discussion -- Paragons in Chinese culture -- The carriage-clothing system in Chinese culture -- The residence system in Chinese culture -- Culture-bound conceptualizations of body parts -- Collectivism versus individualism -- Section summary -- Summary -- The diachronic perspective : Metonymies for WOMAN -- Methodology -- The Corpus of Historical Chinese -- Metonymy Identification -- Metonymy quantification and analysis -- Diachronic Variation in metonymic patterns -- Exploringand visualizing the data -- Targets with relatively stable diachronic variation -- Targets with a dominant trend in diachronic variation -- Targets with highly fluctuating diachronic variation -- Section summary -- Interactions with stylistic variation -- Stylistic variation in metonymic patterns -- Introduction of new metonymic items -- Section summary -- Summary -- The lectal perspective : metonymies for GOVERNMENT -- Methodology -- Data collection -- The variables -- The mixed-effects logistic regression model -- The general regression model for GOVERNMENT -- General impact ofthe predictors -- Specific influence of fixed effects -- The random-effect variable of verbs -- The separate regression model for MAINLAND CHINESE GOVERNMENT -- The separate mixed-effects model -- The lectal variation between Mainland and Taiwan Chinese -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Main findings and contributions -- Limitations and further directions -- References -- Appendix -- Chinese, English metonymic mapping datasets -- Distributions of main patterns for specific targets -- Distributions of sources under a particular pattern for specific targets -- References for meaning identification in the corpus -- Classification of source/target concepts in Case 2 -- Contributions of patterns for interpreting the MDS dimensions -- Index.

ISBN

• 9783110453522
• 3110453525
• 9783110455830 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110453652 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110455847 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 962853041
• SCSB-11076439

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