The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making

  1. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José 1
  2. Galera Masegosa, Alicia 2
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

  2. 2 Universidad de Almería
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    Universidad de Almería

    Almería, España

    ROR https://ror.org/003d3xx08

Libro:
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
  1. Annalisa Baicchi (ed. lit.)

Editorial: John Benjamins

ISSN: 2405-6944

ISBN: 9789027207050,  9789027261021

Año de publicación: 2020

Páginas: 284-307

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1075/FTL.9.12RUI GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumen

This chapter accounts for the different outcomes resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational cognitive models (scenarios). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s (2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory types. It is our contention that the kind of scenario involved constrains the inferential mechanisms activated at the pragmatic levels, which are supported by metonymic activity in the form of metonymic expansion plus metonymic reduction. How such processes can motivate the various formal aspects of constructions is discussed with reference to Kay and Fillmore’s (1999) well-known description of the What’s X Doing Y? construction. This chapter also shows the connections between Langacker’s profile-base relations and the metonymic exploitation of the different kinds of scenarios.