Metonymisation : Three levels of refocusing
(2025) In Cognitive Semantics 11(1). p.1-27- Abstract
- Common proposals for classifying metonyms build on the contiguity of the meaning
of a metonym compared to its original meaning. In contrast, this article offers a
model of metonymisation that focuses on the cognitive underpinnings and sees
metonymisation as an attentional process. By using event structure as a framework,
we present a cognitive model of events that consists of four elements: actor, patient,
force vector and results vector. We propose that metonymisation can be accounted for on three levels. The first level involves shifts of attention within event elements; the
second level shifts between event elements; and the third level shifts between entire
events and their components.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/decbb3d6-9ec8-4824-a660-b9cd9320d679
- author
- Gärdenfors, Peter
LU
and Paradis, Carita
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- attention, refocusing, event model, force, result, metonym
- in
- Cognitive Semantics
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 27 pages
- publisher
- Brill
- ISSN
- 2352-6416
- DOI
- 10.1163/23526416-bja10082
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- decbb3d6-9ec8-4824-a660-b9cd9320d679
- date added to LUP
- 2025-06-28 17:40:29
- date last changed
- 2025-07-16 13:30:18
@article{decbb3d6-9ec8-4824-a660-b9cd9320d679, abstract = {{Common proposals for classifying metonyms build on the contiguity of the meaning<br/>of a metonym compared to its original meaning. In contrast, this article offers a<br/>model of metonymisation that focuses on the cognitive underpinnings and sees<br/>metonymisation as an attentional process. By using event structure as a framework,<br/>we present a cognitive model of events that consists of four elements: actor, patient,<br/>force vector and results vector. We propose that metonymisation can be accounted for on three levels. The first level involves shifts of attention within event elements; the<br/>second level shifts between event elements; and the third level shifts between entire<br/>events and their components.}}, author = {{Gärdenfors, Peter and Paradis, Carita}}, issn = {{2352-6416}}, keywords = {{attention; refocusing; event model; force; result; metonym}}, language = {{eng}}, number = {{1}}, pages = {{1--27}}, publisher = {{Brill}}, series = {{Cognitive Semantics}}, title = {{Metonymisation : Three levels of refocusing}}, url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23526416-bja10082}}, doi = {{10.1163/23526416-bja10082}}, volume = {{11}}, year = {{2025}}, }