The Metaphor-Metonymy Relationship

Correlation Metaphors Are Based on Metonymy

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ID5774500
AuthorsZoltán Kövecses (0000-0002-9642-4662, Eötvös Loránd University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume28
Issue2
Pages75-88
Publication date2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMetaphor and Symbol (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-6488 • E-ISSN: 1532-7868
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10926488.2013.768498
OpenAlexW2050510635
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited27

Do metonymies play any role in the emergence of metaphors? There is a debate between scholars who suggest that many metaphors are based on, or derive from, metonymies, versus those who do not see such connection between the two. "Resemblance metaphors" do not seem to have anything to do with metonymy. However, in the case of "correlation metaphors" (see, e.g., Grady, 1997a Grady, J. 1997a. Foundations of meaning: Primary metaphors and primary scenes, University of California at Berkeley. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation) [Google Scholar], 1997b Grady, J. 1997b. theories are buildings revisited. Cognitive Linguistics, 8: 267-290. [Crossref], [Web of Science (R)] , [Google Scholar], 1999 Grady, J. 1999. "A typology of motivation for conceptual metaphor". In Metaphor in cognitive linguistics, Edited by: Gibbs, R. and Steen, G. 79-100. Amsterdam, , The Netherlands: John Benjamins. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980 Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. 1980. Metaphors we live by, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 1999 Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. 1999. Philosophy in the flesh, New York, NY: Basic Books. [Google Scholar]), several researchers argue that metaphors arise from, and are not independent of, metonymies. My specific proposal in the article is that correlation-based metaphors emerge from frame-like mental representations through a metonymic stage. I suggest this happens when one of the elements of a frame-like mental structure is generalized (schematized) to a concept that lies outside the initial frame in a different part of the conceptual system. The generalization process leads to sufficient conceptual distance between the initial and the new frame on which metaphors can be based

Metaphor and metonymy · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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