Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

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 b...

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Main Author Javier E. Díaz-Vera
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2014
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition1
SeriesCognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
Subjects
Cognitive Linguistics
Cross-cultural studies
Figurative Language
Figures of speech
Language
Language and culture
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Linguistic change
Metaphor
Metonyms
Sociolinguistics
Figurative Language
Linguistic Change
Cognitive Linguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Introductory chapter -- Figuration and language history: Universality and variation -- Diachronic metaphor research -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research -- Conceptual variation and change -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor -- Loss of the prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of 'fingers' and 'claws' in Basque -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor:The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field -- Figuration and grammaticalization -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese -- The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts -- Figurative language in culture variation -- 'Better shamed before one than shamed before all': Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis -- Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach -- 'Thou com'st in such a questionable shape': Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English -- Index
  • Contents --
  • A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque --
  • Conceptual variation and change --
  • Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor --
  • The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language --
  • Index
  • Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach --
  • The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis --
  • Diachronic metaphor research --
  • Figuration and language history: Universality and variation --
  • The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field --
  • ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts --
  • Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment --
  • ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English --
  • Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Figuration and grammaticalization --
  • The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts --
  • Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese --
  • Introductory chapter --
  • Figurative language in culture variation --