Metonymy in Language, Thought and Brain - Bogusław Bierwiaczonek
Metonymy in semantics
Metonymy in Language, Thought and Brain - Bogusław Bierwiaczonek
Bogusław Bierwiaczonek [+]
University of Częstochowa
Bogusław Bierwiaczonek is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Częstochowa in Poland. His most recent publications include Studies in Cognitive Semantics (co-edited with Anna Turula, Wydawnictwo WSL, 2010) and Syntax in Cognitive Grammar (co-edited with Bożena Cetnarowska and Anna Turula, Wydawnictwo WSL, 2011).
Description
This chapter emphasizes the extent and importance of metonymy for lexical semantics and argues that metonymy should be distinguished from various meaning extensions based on elaboration and metaphor.In the area of semantic and lexical relations, the chapter shows that metonymy uses some of the same conceptual configurations that support traditional sense relationships as meronymy, hyponymy, antonymy and complementarity, reversives, and a large number of synonyms.