Vol. 4. No. 1 ( 9.2003)

Uvodnik
Str. 5 - 9

Introduction: Metonymy across languages

Klaus-Uwe Panther
Hamburg University, Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg

Linda L. Thornburg
Hamburg University, Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg
Sažetak:

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Str. 11 - 41

Names: A metonymic “return ticket” in five languages

Antonio Barcelona
E-mail: abs@um.es
University of Murcia
Sažetak: In recent years cognitive linguists have shown that many grammatical structures are motivated by metonymic principles. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the role of metonymy in the emergence ...

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Str. 43 - 69

The MANNER FOR ACTIVITY metonymy across domains and languages

Rita Brdar-Szabó
Eötvös Loránd University

Mario Brdar
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Osijeku
Sažetak: Since both metonymy and metaphor are, in the framework of cognitive linguistics, taken to be basic and universally attested processes that help shape conceptual structures and linguistic expressions, ...

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Str. 71 - 101

Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French

Klaus-Uwe Panther
Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg University

Linda L. Thornburg
Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg University
Sažetak: In this paper we provide evidence that conceptual metonymies are cross-linguistically significant in the coding of verbal aspect. Guillemin- Flescher (1981: Ch. 2), in an important contrastive study o...

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Str. 103 - 120

High-level modal metonymies in English and Spanish

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología

Lorena Pérez Hernández
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología
Sažetak: has been brought to the fore in recent works by Thornburg and Panther (1997), Panther and Thornburg (1999), Radden and Kövecses (1999), Ruiz de Mendoza and Pérez (2001), and Ruiz de Mendoza and Otal (...

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Str. 121 - 138

High-level action metonymies in English and Spanish

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología

Olga Isabel Díez Velasco
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología
Sažetak: In this paper we postulate the existence of two high-level metonymies, ACTION FOR PROCESS and ACTION FOR (ASSESSED) RESULT, that we believe correlate respectively with cases of the causative/inchoativ...

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Str. 139 - 156

Mappings in conceptual space: Metonymy, metaphor, and iconicity in two signed languages

Sherman Wilcox
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Maria Josep Jarque
Universitat de Barcelona
Sažetak: In this paper we present lexical data documenting the interaction of metonymy, metaphor, and iconicity in two signed languages, American Sign Language (ASL) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The basis ...