Metaphor and metonymy at the crossroads : a cognitive perspective

By A. Barcelona. 2003

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Configurations, construals and change: expressions of DEGREE1 (2008, background): “…the third type of construal which is of importance for this article concerns the assignment of perspectives such as foregrounding and backgrounding and 20 Many studies point out that metonymization and metaphorization have been shown to work together (for an overview, see Barcelona 2003).”
Metaphor and metonymy: Making their connections more slippery (2010, background): “One move that might be attempted is simply to disallow similarity from the class of associations called contiguity (Feyaerts 2000, following Ullman 1962).”
Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory. (2008, background): “A few cognitive linguists suggest that some proposals on polysemy are more reflective of what linguists think, or believe, than they are representative of the linguistic behaviour of ordinary speakers (Evans, 2003; Sandra and Rice, 1995).”
Figurative Language in Anger Expressions in Tunisian Arabic: An Extended View of Embodiment (2004, background): “Kövecses (1995) explained that the model describes three submetaphors: “THE BODY IS A CONTAINER FOR THE EMOTIONS” (e.g., He was “filled with” anger), “ANGER IS HEAT” (e.g., He “lost his cool”), and “EMOTIONS ARE FLUIDS” (e.g., You make “my blood boil”) (p. 184).”