Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

by René Dirven

Book Overview

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 twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110173735
• ISBN13: 9783110173734
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary