Metaphor and other cognitive operations in interaction: From Basicity to Complexity
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Universidad de La Rioja
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- Beate Hampe (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Universität Erfurt
ISBN: 9781107198333, 9781108182324
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 139-159
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
By combining three complementary perspectives, the present chapter goes beyond previous treatments of figurative language in general and of conceptual metaphor in particular. Besides viewing metaphor in terms of the basic cognitive processes underlying it, it also investigates how metaphor combines with other metaphors and with metonymy and in what way it is related to other cases of figurative meaning construction. The present chapter paves the way toward an encompassing theory of meaning construction that employs a highly restricted set of principles to account for a broader range of phenomena than previous accounts have done.