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Este artigo tem por fim discutir os principais aspectos da metonímia de acordo com os gramáticos e rétores latinos. Primeiramente, serão elencadas definições desse tropo (ou figura) segundo rétores e gramáticos latinos, tais como o anônimo da Retórica a Herênio, Cícero, Quintiliano, Donato, Festo e Isidoro de Sevilha. Em segundo lugar, serão observadas as diversas espécies de metonímia encontradas em textos antigos. Por fim, serão investigadas as relações entre a metonímia e outras figuras e tropos, especialmente a metáfora, a sinédoque e a catacrese.

This paper aims to reveal the notions covered by the terms metaphor, metonymy and pragmatic inference in the research on semantic change in grammaticalization. It highlights that these are not only conceived of in different ways in the grammaticalization literature, but also cover notions that are different from their synchronic interpretation. Theoretical considerations are illustrated by presenting different approaches to the development of the English immediate future be going to from a motion verb construction. The study argues that approaches based on the concepts of metaphor and metonymy are complementary in describing semantic change in grammaticalization. However, the diachronic notions of metaphor and metonymy are distinguished from their synchronic concepts. The paper concludes that universal similarities of inferential mechanisms, based on our knowledge that comes from the way we experience the world, shape similar pathways of semantic change in grammaticalization. *** A tanulmány célja, hogy feltárja, milyen fogalmakat takarnak a metafora, metonímia, illetve pragmatikai következtetés terminusok a grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozás irodalmában, és megmutassa, hogy ezek értelmezése nemcsak az egyes elméleti megközelítésekben lehet más és más, hanem a szinkrón értelmezéstől is különbözik. Az elméleti fejtegetést az angol „be going to + főnévi igenév” mozgásigés szerkezetből kialakuló közeljövő grammatikalizációjának különböző elemzései illusztrálják. A vizsgálat, amely alapján a metaforának és metonímiának egy szinkrón és egy diakrón megközelítése bontakozik ki, azt látszik alátámasztani, hogy metonímia és metafora a grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozásban egymást kiegészítő pragmatikai folyamatokként összeegyeztethetőek. A kognitív metaforák hátterében álló, a világ tapasztalati megismeréséből adódó tudáson alapuló következtetési sémáink a grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozás irányát is megszabják.

Este trabajo desarrolla un análisis de los procedimientos retóricos propios de la prosa de algunos cuentos de Leonardo Padura: “Según pasan los años”, “El cazador”, “La puerta de Alcalá”. En ellos se configuraría una suerte de “aplanamiento” de los diversos elementos de la representación narrativa. Este procedimiento puede describirse como una continuidad metonímica o como una “textualización” de diversos planos de inmanencia semiótica, lo cual traería como consecuencia una especial verosimilitud narrativa: la realidad ficcional y la realidad histórica se continúan disolviendo sus límites y sin aparente cambio de nivel de pertinencia. De este modo, se extienden los dominios de la ficción al campo de las formas de vida y se proyectan dichas formas a la inmanencia textual.

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Mikołaj Rej’s “Źwierzyniec” first published 1562 significantly influenced development of the epigram in Poland. In the illustration devoted to the representation of the political elite of the time, contained in the “Rozdział wtóry” the “head” as a metaphor and metonymy is often listed. Rej made this part of the body the basis for reflection on the value system of representatives of the nobility. The “head” itself in the presented samples is considered as a source of thoughts, feelings and ingenium, and as a plane of reason and weakness at the same time. And it also brings less apparent associations. In the form of the metonymy the “head” functions as part pro toto and performs similar function to a metaphor – it represents a human being as a thinking subject and thus emphasizes his intellectual potential or is the center of thoughts and feelings of the portrayed character. The metaphor in “Źwierzyniec” is a testimony to Rej’s rich imagination. It also exposes his political views, but it is a reliable tool of parenesis showing the correct way of proceeding to the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main aim of this study is to describe the color term negro as a polysemic unit and to show it as a radial category containing different meanings related among them, as well as to highlight the prominence of metonymy in the motivation and the relation among senses. The article is structured as follows: (i) exposition of the main characteristics of cognitive semantics and conceptual polysemy, (ii) description of the motivation of different meanings related to negro and (iii) organization of the radial network of negro as a polysemic category and description of the role of metonymy and metaphor in the relationship among meanings. In order to carry out the study a corpus-based methodology is applied. This allows us to obtain usage-based events of the color term negro as well as to access the cotextual and contextual information that intervene in the activation and distinction of senses. In terms of the motivation and the relationship among them, the study is carried out according to the TCMM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows results of a study that analyzed some metaphoric and metonymic mappings. These were composed by twenty students of Brazilian Portuguese as an foreign language (L2) - namely, Spanish speakers as mother language (LI) - concerning two specific Brazilian Portuguese idioms (IDs), "meter os pés pelas mãos (to drop the ball) and "ter mão leve" (to be light-fingered: stealing unnoticed). In addition, th study analyzed a possible influence of the opacity level in the IDs with regard to the meaning apprehension process. As methodology, this research used individual interviews, through verbal protocols, to collect the data. The study findings corroborate the thesis where metaphoric knowledge influences online comprehension and processing of idioms in an L2 (GIBBS, 1995: KÕVECSES; SZABÓ, 1996: KAZEMI et al., 2013). Furthermore, those findings manifest two additional factors that influence both processes: transparency versus opacity levels between LI and L2 idioms, and singularity versus multiplicity of meaning between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el presente trabajo, con base en herramientas semióticas principalmente, abordaremos un caso de metonimia y otro de metáfora, correspondientemente, en dos textos fílmicos: Cinema Paradiso y El cartero de Neruda. Nuestros objetivos generales son: a) proponer un acercamiento para abonar a la aplicación de nociones de la retórica a textos distintos de los literarios y b) mostrar la función de ambos recursos retóricos dentro de cada uno de los textos fílmicos escogidos.

Abstract A part of research in education is related to innovation. This means trying to create new approaches or teaching techniques to the object or process being taught. It has always being said that there is a gap between science/technology and arts/humanities. For this reason, this paper tries to show some examples of how to link and apply these branches of knowledge among them, as part of an innovative and creative teaching/learning process. As lexis and languages apply to everything, because all the objects and concepts need significant to express their significations, the terms of study are coupled in Spanish/English pairs. This way, students can learn vocabulary through contrast, comparison and semantic connections which trace the evolution of meanings. The complement of visuals and images helps capture the attention of students who can see the language class as a complete mosaic that links humanistic and technical knowledge. Both similarities and differences may act as a mental trigger to store vocabulary in the memory. The study has focused three war terms such as bayoneta/bayonet, bazuca/bazooka and cañón/cannon to see what type of historical, musical or cultural implications could make students preserve the meaning of these words in their mental reservoir. In addition, the complement of visuals and images helps capture the attention of students who can see the language class as a more complete approximation to knowledge. This approach to teaching tries to capture attention in a way that makes students not forget the contents of the class in their long-term memory. Resumen Una parte de la investigación en educación se relaciona con la investigación. Lo anterior implica que se han de intentar crear nuevos enfoques o métodos de enseñanza para el objeto o proceso que se estudia. Siempre se ha dicho que hay un hueco entre la ciencia y la tecnología, por un lado, y, las humanidades, por otro. Por tal motivo, este artículo intenta mostrar algunos ejemplos de cómo unir y aplicar ambas ramas de conocimiento, como parte de un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje innovador y creativo. Como el léxico de todos los idiomas se aplica a todo, porque todos los objetos necesitan significantes para expresar sus significados, los términos de estudio se agrupan en pares inglés-español. De este modo los estudiantes pueden aprender vocabulario por medio del contraste, la comparación y las conexiones semánticas, que rastrean la evolución de los significados. El complemento de imágenes ayuda a capturar la atención de los alumnos, que pueden percibir la clase de idiomas como un mosaico completo que enlaza el conocimiento técnico con el humanista. Tanto las similitudes como las diferencias pueden actuar como un desencadenante mental para almacenar el vocabulario en la memoria. El estudio ha enfocado tres términos de guerra, bayoneta/bayonet, bazuca/bazooka y cañón/cannon, para comprobar qué tipo de implicaciones históricas, musicales o culturales pueden salvaguardar el significado de estas palabras en su baúl mental. Además, el complemento visual ayuda a atrapar la atención de los estudiantes, quienes pueden ver la clase de idiomas como una aproximación más completa al conocimiento. Este enfoque de la enseñanza intenta atrapar la atención de los alumnos de modo que los contenidos de la clase queden alojados en su memoria a largo plazo.

Spesso i nomi deverbali – oltre al significato trasposizionale del verbo di base – sviluppano in diacronia dei ‘cicli lessicali’ (Simone 2000), ovvero estensioni semantiche sistematiche, regolari e gerarchiche. Il meccanismo retorico che opera nei cicli lessicali è la metonimia: essa converte, per contiguità, in entità linguistiche gli argomenti reali, quelli di default e quelli creati per mezzo di un dispositivo metonimico. I nomi deverbali, infatti, procedendo in modo regolare attivano in primis i significati relativi ai sottoeventi, successivamente quelli relativi ai ruoli della struttura argomentale e, infine, quelli degli argomenti metonimici.

Abstract: In the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm it is well known that conceptual metaphor and metonymy, among their various functions, are two important tools of lexical creation. Nevertheless, the literature on the topic is almost exclusively concerned with the analysis of well-established and formal varieties of language to the detriment of informal speech. This paper attempts to fill this void by describing some current informal speech expressions in Spanish which may be considered the result of these two cognitive operations; additionally, whenever possible, we offer their English counterparts. We thus explore the way in which these analytic tools play a crucial role in the proper understanding of expressions such as “estoy de bajón” (UNHAPPY IS DOWN), “vas ciego esta noche” (KNOWLEDGE IS VISION), “ya vienen los pitufos” (COLOUR OF UNIFORM FOR POLICEMAN), “esa chica está cañón” (BEING ATTRACTIVE IS HAVING PHYSICAL FORCE), etc. The expressions under consideration have been mainly obtained on the basis of Google searches and from Spanish newspapers. Resumen: En el paradigma de la Lingüística Cognitiva es bien sabido que tanto la metáfora como la metonimia son, entre sus varias funciones, importantes mecanismos de creación léxica. Sin embargo, los estudios llevados a cabo sobre el tema se centran esencialmente en el análisis de variedades lingüísticas formales y bien asentadas, relegando a un segundo plano el lenguaje informal. Con el fin de llenar este vacío, el presente artículo analiza algunas expresiones de la lengua española informal que pueden ser consideradas fruto de estas operaciones mentales; además, siempre que sea factible, incluimos los equivalentes en inglés. Para ello, exploraremos cómo estas herramientas analíticas juegan un papel crucial en la correcta comprensión de varias expresiones como “estoy de bajón” (UNHAPPY IS DOWN), “vas ciego esta noche” (KNOWLEDGE IS VISION), “ya vienen los pitufos” (COLOUR OF UNIFORM FOR POLICEMAN), “esa chica está cañón” (BEING ATTRACTIVE IS HAVING PHYSICAL FORCE), etc. Los ejemplos han sido extraídos de diversos periódicos españoles y de búsquedas en Google.

Mediante un estudio de caso, este artículo aborda el potencial evocativo de la metonimia en la traducción para reposicionar las subjetividades femeninas en otra lengua y cultura desde una perspectiva transnacional de la traducción feminista. En el campo literario, la metonimia se define como una figura retórica mediante la cual un término se emplea para evocar una serie de asociaciones culturales que se encuentran íntimamente vinculadas a la experiencia. El artículo persigue dos objetivos: (1) analizar el rol de la metonimia en la traducción para observar la recreación y reconfiguración de la compleja red de relaciones de poder en el texto feminista; y (2) examinar aspectos geopolíticos de la traducción en torno a las relaciones de poder instauradas en la traducción de un texto argentino escrito en español al inglés. Para ello, se estudia la traducción de metonimias específicas que revelan la condición femenina encarcelada en Pasos bajo el agua (1987), un relato testimonial sobre la última dictadura militar argentina escrito por Alicia Kozameh. Los resultados muestran que los mecanismos evocativos de la metonimia contribuyen a revelar las relaciones de género y, por tanto, requieren especial consideración para la traducción de textos feministas desde una perspectiva transnacional.

A coincidência da invenção da dicção futurista, da qual participa muito ativamente a poesia de Boris Pasternak, com a confirmação da eficácia prática dos discursos ideológicos e propagandísticos no tempo da revolução e da guerra, causou a ruptura da fronteira entre arte e vida, fazendo com que a linguagem poética passasse a ocupar um lugar incerto, próximo dos discursos da política e da religião. A encenação da voz que, além de ser marcada pelo sintoma afirma-se em seus aspectos de uma técnica do corpo, convencional e inscrita no âmbito de uma tradição cultural, torna-se o desafio do poema “Poesia”, traduzido no Brasil por Haroldo de Campos. Encenando uma voz que ganha sua eficácia no nível inferior da expressão, o texto aponta para uma perturbadora semelhança entre as características da voz do poeta da revolução e os desvios da enunciação pública de um discurso político. Henri Meschonnic insiste em sua crítica antropológica do ritmo na dimensão demagógica e na iminência do desnudamento do registro patológico inerentes a uma técnica do corpo por demais singularizada. A eficácia da palavra poética de Pasternak articulada pela metonímia aproxima-se, de fato, da palavra ideologicamente comprometida praticada no âmbito dos ritos e dos rituais e, nesse sentido, o poema “Poesia” leva à formulação de uma crítica de certas acepções do engajamento da literatura e da arte.

Over the past two decades, the relationship between metaphor and culture has been an important object of study in Cognitive Linguistics, especially due to the impact of globalisation on our everyday living. This impact has particularly affected the field of economy where figurative language is pervasive. Within this research context, the present article aims at exploring not only the role of metaphor in economics which has been the interest of a huge amount of studies, but also the role of conceptual complexes in the languages of two historically connected countries which nevertheless differ significantly in their economic development: Britain and Pakistan. To this end, metaphors and conceptual complexes have been analysed in Urdu and English. The analysis has proved in cross-linguistic terms the intricacies of conceptual material in the field of economics and the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of the account of conceptual complexes mentioned above [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Agent-deprofiling constructions have the function of drawing the language user's attention to the non-agentive elements of a predication, while endowing one of these elements with agent-like qualities. Members of this family are the inchoative, middle, instrument-subject, location-subject, and cause-subject constructions. These constructions have been discussed in the literature, especially in projectionist accounts of language, without adequately accounting for their relatedness, which in our view can best be done by investigating their grounding in cognition. The present article addresses this issue by considering agent-deprofiling constructions as belonging to the class of what we term pretense constructions. Pretense constructions provide non-descriptive, or re-construed, representations of states, situations, or events. Because of their re-construed nature, which involves metaphor and/or metonymy, in these configurations there is no one-to-one match between the semantic and syntactic functions of their elements. We discuss how this reorganization of the semantic and syntactic function of constructional elements produces specific meaning implications that can be motivated by underlying metaphoric and metonymic shifts, sometimes working in cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last few years there has been a rapprochement between Cognitive Linguistics and semantic theories of humour based on the notion of script or frame. By drawing on Ritchie's version of the theory of frame-shifting (2005) and reviewing the cognitive linguistic account of humour, we shall demonstrate how the interpretation of jokes containing a metaphor or a metonymy involves two cognitive-pragmatic tasks: the completion of the metaphorical/metonymic mapping that results in a new frame, and the resolution of the joke's incongruity via a contrast with the surrounding frames of the joke. We also develop a classification of frame shifts according to their ontological structure (non-metaphorical/metonymic shifts and shifts based on metaphorical and/or metonymic reasoning) and the degree of the interpreter's inferential activity (conceptual filling out and metaphor/metonymy replacement). In doing so, we attempt to identify some of the defining features of humorous metaphors and metonymies, as well as other phenomena that may also characterise jokes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metaphorization of motion verbs is a very common phenomenon at the interlinguistic level. In this paper, we examine the metaphorical uses of the Italian movement deictic verbs andare and venire. We delineate a semantic network to recognize the different processes of abstraction that have led to the evolution of the basic literal meaning of 'spatial displacement'. Our analysis evidences the relationships between the deictic and the actional features of the basic meaning of these verbs and their numerous metaphorical and metonymic ramifications. For its classification we have used the interpretive instruments, models and categories of Cognitive Linguistics (moving world, moving ego, subjectivization, etc.). After an introduction of the theoretical assumptions of our investigation, we analyze a corpus of examples from several sources: the Italian edition of A streetcar named desire by T. Williams (Williams, 1963), the corpus of the spoken Italian LIP (De Mauro, Mancini, Vedovelli, Voghera, 1993) and several Italian websites consulted via Google. These examples are part of a broader corpus that has been compiled for the contrastive study of the deictic motion verbs in Italian and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En este artículo, abordamos un aspecto puntual de la gramática de la Lengua de Señas Argentina (LSA), lengua natural transmitida en la modalidad visual y cuyos hablantes nativos pertenecen a la comunidad Sorda argentina: las señas sustantivas concretas. Nuestro objetivo general es identificar si existe un mecanismo metonímico de formación de señas sustantivas concretas en la LSA desde una perspectiva cognitiva (Langacker, 1987, 1991, 2000, 2008; Lakoff, 1987), a partir de la descripción y el análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de las señas. Pretendemos demostrar, por un lado, que muchas señas sustantivas concretas poseen un polo fonológico que tiende a acercarse al polo semántico a través de la metonimia, siendo ambos espacios conceptuales, y, por el otro, que el mecanismo metonímico observado en el proceso de formación de dichas señas se relaciona estrechamente con el principio de iconicidad cognitiva, entendido como la relación de distancia existente entre los polos semántico y fonológico de una estructura simbólica en la misma región de un espacio conceptual (Wilcox, 2004).

A publicidade é um campo privilegiado para comprovar determinadas técnicas multimodais que ligam sobretudo o texto e a imagem. Nessa multimodalidade comunicativa, o funcionamento metafórico e metonímico constitui um subdomínio particularmente interessante, não apenas na sua dimensão linguística, mas igualmentea nível de eficiência comunicativa para com o consumidor, a meta final da publicidade. Neste texto procurar-se-á evidenciar como a dimensão multimodal da metáfora se pode ancorar na explicitação/subentendido quer da componente pictórica quer da textual, como isso se pode transformar em jogo desafiador de interpretações para o consumidor, e como o conceito de Necessidade de Cognição (Need For Cognition, ou NFC, no inglês) assenta bastante nos jogos metafórico-metonímicos que os anúncios publicitários podem conter.

No artigo “The Origin of Suffixes in Romance”, constante no volume terceiro de Word-Formation: an International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, David Pharies constrói acurada tipologia das origens dos sufixos românicos. No artigo ora presente, tomo partido de certas posições de Pharies para propor, em viés crítico, determinadas releituras minhas acerca de questões sobre que ali se versa. A linha que persigo, como eixo verdadeiramente central, é a proposição do rendimento do binômio metáfora/metonímia como possível motriz da constituição de fenômenos linguísticos, sobretudo de ordem morfológico-lexical.

The author presents some principles of Cognitive Linguistics useful in dealing with metonymy and metaphor as semantic resources in relation to idioms and proverbs. Beyond their interest for studies of Literature and Linguistics, these resources show how the human mind works.

El trabajo busca adaptar el MIPVU (Metaphor Identification Procedure of Vrije Universiteit, Steen et al., 2010) a la identificación de metonimias. Para esto, se revisan críticamente tres definiciones de metonimia –la definición en términos de dominios (Lakoff, 1987), la definición en términos de continuidad espaciotemporal (Seto, 1999) y la definición basada en categorías radiales (Peirsman & Geeraerts, 2006)– y se las contrasta con casos de metonimia no prototípicos. Asimismo, se evalúa la posibilidad de que la metonimia se dé simultáneamente con otros procesos, como la generalización y la especialización semántica. Por último, dado que estos procesos se aplicaron fundamentalmente a la clase nominal, se busca precisar su relación con diferentes clases de palabras.

En el siguiente trabajo se estudian tres expresiones idiomáticas de tipo locución verbal (LV) con un componente o lexía relacionada con la gastronomía del español de Venezuela. Las expresiones se extrajeron de un corpus compuesto por 207 expresiones idiomáticas obtenidas mediante entrevista informales realizadas a hablantes caraqueños. Las expresiones se analizaron a partir de la Teoría del Lexicón Generativo y la teoría de la metáfora. El análisis de las expresiones da cuenta de que en ellas opera un proceso metafórico en el cual los alimentos toman el lugar que usualmente ocuparía una persona en el dominio de origen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to increase our knowledge of the phenomenon whereby some nouns with conceptual meaning are used as (or give rise to) units suitable for quantifying purposes to a greater or lesser extent. We are interested in describing its several manifestations and phases, and especially in showing the difference between: a) the cases where the association of a quantitative meaning with the expression of a conceptual noun ultimately depends on the context, irrespectively of whether it is more or less conventionalized, and b) the cases where that bond has become stable, so that there is a new sign which is an inherent quantifier but not a nominal one despite its appearance. This syntax-based division is consistent with some differences of substance on the content plane, which have to do with the (im)purity of the quantitative value on the examined units, that is, with the fact that they superimpose (or not) qualitative features on the quantified noun. We also provide some notes on the lexical characteristics that nouns taking part in this phenomenon usually present, as well as some reflections on the position which the resulting quantifiers take in the lexicon/grammar dichotomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we analyze the data collected in an exploratory test, designed to establish a measure of the advise illocutionary force of the 15 utterances. The analysis shows that the pragmatic reading of expressions depends largely on their constructional features, as Pérez (2001), Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi (2007) and Del Campo (2012, 2013) have proposed within the framework of the study on illocutionary constructions. Consequently, it is not valid to state a strong interpretation of Wittgenstein's (1953) thesis that "the meaning is the use in the language". This interpretation, rejected, among others, by Searle (1969), imposes an insurmountable limitation to the explanatory pretensions of pragmalinguistics, which does not correlate with our results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metaphor and metonymy are two mecanisms of basic conceptualization that justify the notional uses the verb motion go out as semantically derived from its corresponding prototypical uses. In this paper we will demonstrate that the abstract structures involving this verb can be explained by the projection of three basic image schemas: the path schema, the container schema and the whole-part schema (with its two metonymical directions: whole by part and part by whole). However, we will study others subsidiary image schemas of container and path metaphors: the force image schema, the process image schema, the fullempty image schema and the excess image schema. The examples were drawn from two oral corpora-Corpus oral de la variedad juvenil universitaria del español hablado en Alicante (COVJA) y Alicante, Corpus del español (ALCORE)-, where I have noticed a frequent use of these structures; and from one corpus written-CREA-, to which I have resorted in order to get a broaden database. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]