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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 74–91

Chapter 3
Problems in distinguishing metaphor and metonymy

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2The overlap between metaphor and metonymy
  • 3.3The experiential hypothesis and metonymic origins
    of metaphor themes
    • negative emotion is discomfort/pain
    • negative emotion is hurt/injury
    • happiness/hope is light
    • sadness/pessimism is dark
  • 3.4Literalisation or situational triggering
  • 3.5Substitution and combination interdependence
  • 3.6Analogy and abstract concretisation
  • 3.7Feature selection as metonymic or metaphoric
  • 3.8Grounds as potentially metonymic
  • 3.9Contingent or possible features in metonymy and metaphor
  • 3.10Metaphtonomy
  • 3.11Simultaneous metonymy and metaphor
  • 3.12A cline from metonymy to metaphor?
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