Metonymy in Language and Thought

John Benjamins, 1999. — ix, 423 pages. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN 90 272 2356 4; ISBN 1 55619 204 5.Eighteen years after Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) seminal work on the role of metaphor in conceptualization, which sparked a vast amount of research in cognitive linguistics, it has become increasingly apparent that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. We believe that the contributions give a fair view of the state of the art in metonymic research, although we are also aware of the fact that a great many questions about metonymy still remain unanswered, some of which will be addressed below.ContentsIntroduction
Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy
Towards a Theory of Metonymy
Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy
Metonymy and Conceptual Integration
Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche
Aspects of Referential Metonymy
Historical Aspects of Metonymy
Frame and Contiguity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word Formation
Co-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of Metonymy
Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts
Metonymy in Onomastics
Case Studies of Metonymy
Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object
Putting Metonymy in its Place
Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata
Opposition as a Metonymic Principle
Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions
The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian
Applications of Metonymy
“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language Acquisition
Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison’s Song of Solomon