Metaphor and phonological reduction in English idiomatic expressions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Sanford (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cogl.2008.023 |
| OpenAlex | W1974722750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Gibbs and O'Brien (1990) argue that the high degree of consistency in speakers' mental images for common idioms indicates that conceptual metaphors play a vital role in constraining the meaning of such expressions. The experiment reported here, which monitors speakers' reading of the stimuli used by Gibbs and O'Brien, seeks to uncover a phonological correlate of the same phenomenon. It is argued here that the highly constrained nature of the source domains from which metaphorically motivated idioms draw their meanings (evidenced, in the Gibbs and O'Brien study, by the consistency of speakers' mental images) causes words internal to such idioms to be highly predictable. This predictability is associated with words carrying a low semantic load, licensing their phonological reduction. The hypothesis that words internal to idiomatic expressions are reduced in duration is confirmed, and this is taken as further support for Gibbs and O'Briens' findings that metaphors are to at least some extent active in the on-line processing of idioms
Cognitive psychology · Conceptual metaphor · Consistency (knowledge bases · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Metaphor · Phenomenon · Semantics (computer science · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence
Idioms and mental imagery
Conceptual integration and metaphor
Talkers' signaling of “new” and “old” words in speech and listeners' perception and use of the distinction
Regular morphology and the lexicon
The comprehension of idioms
The Effect of Semantic Analyzability of Idioms in Metalinguistic Tasks
Convention, Form, and Figurative Language Processing
Convention, Form, and Figurative Language Processing
The Death of Dead Metaphor
Metaphor, idiom and ideology
Idioms in sentences
English Metaphors for Language
The effect of usage on degrees of constituency
On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions
Idioms
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |