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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 268–320

Chapter 10
Metonymy, metaphor, culture and ideology in lexicogenesis

Article outline
  • 10.1Introduction
  • 10.2Genres as manifestation of culture
    • 10.2.1Genres, orders of discourse, and culture
    • 10.2.2Language acquisition in socio-cultural contexts
      • 10.2.2.1Language development in the child
      • 10.2.2.2Genre, shared collaborative activities and culture
    • 10.2.3Genre/culture and sub-culture: Shared knowledge, intimacy and abbreviation
  • 10.3Ideology, anthropocentrism and grammar
    • 10.3.1Grammar-dependent metonymies and ideology
      • 10.3.1.1The empathy hierarchy: Active nature and possession schemas
      • 10.3.1.2Conflating of motion verbs
      • 10.3.1.3Ergativitiy
      • 10.3.1.4Nominalisations and passives
      • 10.3.1.5Personal reference
  • 10.4Metonymy themes
    • Restriction and difficulty
    • Appointment
  • 10.5Individual lexis and ideology
    • 10.5.1Complex figuration from a historical perspective
      • Gerrymander
      • Pioneer
      • Deadline
      • Carpetbagger
      • Speakeasy
      • Jazz
      • G.I.
      • Doggy bag
      • Baby sitter
      • Boys will be boys
      • Latchkey children
      • Nuclear family
      • FOMO
      • Selfie
    • 10.5.2Cultural movements
      • Artless
      • Class struggle, class conflict, class war
      • Non-aligned movement
      • Behaviourism
      • Capitalism
      • Humanism
    • 10.5.3Social groups, social trends and resistance
      • 10.5.3.1The problematic young
        • Teenager
        • Generation gap
        • Generation X
        • Yuppie
      • 10.5.3.2Sexual mores and the family
        • Sex object, sexism
        • Not just a pretty face
        • Dinkie/dinky
        • Single parent, single mother, lone parent, solo parent
        • Helicopter parent
      • 10.5.3.3Economy and work
        • Consumer society
        • Emallgration
        • Lessness
        • Rat-race
        • Sweatshop
        • Slack, slacker
        • Junk food, fast food
    • 10.5.4Emotive lexis
      • 10.5.4.1Euphemism and change in emotive spin
        • Senior moment
        • Industrial action
        • Sexy
        • Gay
        • Woke
      • 10.5.4.2Dysphemism and banter in Australian society
        • Bullshit
        • Bloody
        • Bastard
        • Bugger
      • 10.5.4.3Pejorative affixes and cultural change
    • 10.5.5Playful hypothetical nonce words
      • Coffused
      • Phonemantic
      • Procrastinetflix
      • Saudiception
      • Pollutocrat
  • 10.6Postscript and summary
  • Note
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