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The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's two-domain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy developed recently; one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

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Author:   Rene Dirven ,  Ralf Poerings
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint 2014
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.058kg
ISBN:  

9783110173734

ISBN 10:   3110173735
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   07 June 2002
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Dieses Buch ist ein unentbehrliches Werk f r alle, die auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung im Bereich der Metapher und der Metonymie sein wollen. (Sabine De Knop, Linguistische Berichte 196/2003)

Dieses Buch ist ein unentbehrliches Werk fur alle, die auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung im Bereich der Metapher und der Metonymie sein wollen. (Sabine De Knop, Linguistische Berichte 196/2003)

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Rene Dirven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Duisburg, Germany. Ralf Poerings is Assistant Professor at the University of Essen, Germany.

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