List of tables
Table 1.1Literal and metaphorical similarities
Table 1.2“Metaphors” categorised in terms of degrees of similarity and analogy
Table 1.3Degrees of syntactic contradictoriness
Table 1.4Marking and specifying metaphor
Table 1.5Mappings in the conceptual metaphor thinking is mathematical calculation
Table 2.1Metonymic categories: Part to whole ICMs
Table 2.2Metonymic categories: Parts of an ICM
Table 2.3Classificatory terms for metonymic sources and targets
Table 2.4Process types and participants in SFG transitivity
Table 3.1Experiential or metonymic basis of metaphor themes
Table 4.1Functions of metaphor and metonymy compared
Table 4.2Conventional affective metaphors in sub-classes of appreciation
Table 5.1Meaning shifts for holiday
Table 5.2Meaning transfer for holiday
Table 5.3Examples of lexicogenesis involving metaphor and metonymy
Table 5.4Lexicogenesis types in relation to change in word-class and form
Table 6.1Patterns of literal-metonymical base-derivative correlation for conversions
Table 6.2Patterns of literal-metaphorical base-derivative correlation for conversions
Table 6.3The meanings of neutral conversion lexis in the B−L+Mph/D−L+Mph pattern
Table 6.4Percentages of literal and metaphorical meanings for neutral conversion lexis in the B−L+Mph/D−L+Mph pattern in a COCA sample
Table 6.5Total adding separate metaphor and metonymy figures for conversions
Table 6.6Patterns of literal-metonymic base-derivative correlation for suffixations
Table 6.7Patterns of literal-metaphorical base-derivative correlation for suffixation
Table 6.8Total adding separate metaphor and metonymy figures for suffixations
Table 6.9Percentages of literal and metaphorical meanings for neutral suffixation lexis in the B−L+Mph/D−L+Mph pattern in a
COCA sample
Table 6.10Missing clausal elements in textual metonymies
Table 6.11Clausal elements in complex textual metonymies
Table 6.12Total adding separate metaphor and metonymy figures for phrasal verbs
Table 6.13Percentages of metaphorical meanings for neutral 1 phrase idioms in the B−L+Mph/D−L+Mph pattern in a COCA
sample
Table 6.14Percentages of metaphorical meanings for neutral 2-phrase idioms in the B−L+Mph/D−L+Mph pattern in a COCA
sample
Table 6.15Percentages of Macmillan English Dictionary sample involving metonymy and metaphor by derivation type
Table 7.1Colligation, collocation, association and the meanings of consequence
Table 7.2Word-form, voice and tense for decline* ‘refuse’
Table 7.3Priming data for staggered using concordance data from COCA
Table 8.1Recognition, specification and signalling of figurative meanings in lexicogenesis types
Table 8.2Figures for word-class frequency in Wordnet and the Thesaurus
Table 8.3Differences between lexical and grammatical words in text
Table 8.4Basic level properties and words
Table 8.5Parsing and productivity of suffixes
Table 8.62 classes of suffix
Table 8.74 classes of suffix
Table 8.8Productivity of suffixes
Table 10.1A formulaic description of schemas used for the expression of predicative possession (simplified from Heine 1997: 47)
Table 10.2Specifics of the production schema
Table 10.3Ideological and metaphorical oppositions
Table 10.4An overview of physiological metonymies for basic emotions
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