Metonymization : A key mechanism in semantic change
Paradis, Carita LU
(2011)
In Human Cognitive Processing
28.
p.61-88
- Abstract
Despite a sizable functional literature on variation and change, very little attention has been given to the diachronic mechanisms of meaning shifts and change covering the whole continuum from contentful to configurational meanings. This chapter is an attempt to begin filling this gap. It proposes a unitary approach to the mechanisms of variation and change within the Cognitive Linguistics framework. Two types of construals are considered to be essential for the differences between change and shifts, namely, metonymization and zone activation, both of which are part–whole configurations that profile aspects that are contextually motivated in a given situation in human communication. Metonymization is a construal that operates between... (More)
Despite a sizable functional literature on variation and change, very little attention has been given to the diachronic mechanisms of meaning shifts and change covering the whole continuum from contentful to configurational meanings. This chapter is an attempt to begin filling this gap. It proposes a unitary approach to the mechanisms of variation and change within the Cognitive Linguistics framework. Two types of construals are considered to be essential for the differences between change and shifts, namely, metonymization and zone activation, both of which are part–whole configurations that profile aspects that are contextually motivated in a given situation in human communication. Metonymization is a construal that operates between senses, while activation of zones operates within senses.
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- Paradis, Carita
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- 2011
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- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- configuration, construal, part–whole, profile, sense, zone activation
- host publication
- Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics : Towards a consensus view - Towards a consensus view
- series title
- Human Cognitive Processing
- editor
- Benczes, Réka ; Barcelona, Antonio and Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José
- volume
- 28
- pages
- 28 pages
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
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- scopus:85088911121
- ISSN
- 1387-6724
- ISBN
- 9789027286765
- 9789027223821
- DOI
- 10.1075/hcp.28.04par
- language
- English
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- yes
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