Metaphor and metonymy : a diachronic approach /
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Author / Creator: | Allan, Kathryn. |
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Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2008. |
Description: | x, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Publications of the Philological Society ; 42 |
Subject: | Metaphor. English language -- Metonyms. English language -- Discourse analysis. English language -- Style. English language -- Discourse analysis. English language -- Metonyms. English language -- Style. Metaphor. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7688608 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Motivation
- 1.2. Brief outline of the study of metaphor and metonymy
- 1.2.1. Early work on metaphor
- 1.2.2. Metaphors We Live By, and the work of Lakoff et al.
- 1.2.3. Metonymy
- 1.2.4. Use of corpora in the study of metaphor and metonymy
- 1.3. Methodology
- 1.3.1. The Historical Thesaurus of English and the Oxford English Dictionary
- 1.3.2. The Intelligence corpus
- 1.3.3. Guide to the data
- 1.3.4. Discrepancies between HTE and the Intelligence corpus
- 1.3.5. Dating of entries
- 1.3.6. Data analysis
- 1.4. The data: some preliminary comments
- 1.4.1. Stupid Vs. Clever
- 1.4.2. The core concept groups
- 1.4.3. The 'hierarchy' of core concepts
- 1.4.4. Associations between core concepts
- 1.4.5. Mind, Head and Brain
- 1.4.6. Focus of the study
- 2. Senses
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Data
- 2.2.1. Vision
- 2.2.1.1. Light
- 2.2.2. Touch
- 2.2.3. Taste
- 2.2.4. Hearing
- 2.3. Motivation
- 2.3.1. Vision
- 2.3.1.1. Light
- 2.3.2. Touch
- 2.3.3. Taste
- 2.3.4. Hearing
- 2.4. Proto-Indo-European
- 2.5. Primary metaphor and conflation theory
- 2.6. Evidence in non-Indo-European languages
- 2.7. Ontogeny and phylogeny
- 2.8. Conclusion
- 2.9. Evidence from Afroasiatic and Austronesian
- 2.9.1. Vision
- 2.9.2. Touch
- 2.9.3. Taste
- 2.9.4. Hearing
- 2.10. Data tables
- 2.10.1. Sense-Vision
- 2.10.1.1. Sense-Vision-Light
- 2.10.2. Sense-Grasp (Touch)
- 2.10.3. Sense-Taste
- 2.10.4. Sense-Hearing
- 3. Density
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Data
- 3.2.1. General terms
- 3.2.2. Wood
- 3.2.3. Earth
- 3.2.4. Food
- 3.2.5. Miscellaneous
- 3.3. Dates
- 3.4. Motivation
- 3.4.1. Blending theory
- 3.4.2. General terms vs. specific substances
- 3.4.3. Wood
- 3.4.4. Earth
- 3.4.5. Food
- 3.4.6. Miscellaneous
- 3.5. Semantic 'pathways'
- 3.6. Specificity and lack of other substances
- 3.7. Conceptual links and limits on reference
- 3.8. Conclusion
- 3.9. Data tables
- 3.9.1. Density-General
- 3.9.2. Density-Wood
- 3.9.3. Density-Earth
- 3.9.4. Density-Food
- 3.9.5. Density-Miscellaneous
- 4. Animals
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Data
- 4.2.1. Mammals
- 4.2.2. Birds
- 4.2.3. Insects
- 4.2.4. Fish
- 4.3. Motivation
- 4.3.1. Nature and nurture, the brain, and cognitive fluidity
- 4.3.2. Cultural influences: the medieval tradition and beyond
- 4.3.3. Dating issues: a problem?
- 4.3.4. Derogatory terms and the Great Chain metaphor
- 4.3.5. An analysis of Animal metaphorisation
- 4.3.6. Similarity theory
- 4.4. Particular animals found
- 4.4.1. Mammals
- 4.4.1.1. Donkeys/Mules
- 4.4.1.2. Sheep
- 4.4.1.3. Bovines
- 4.4.1.4. Other Animals
- 4.4.2. Birds
- 4.4.3. Insects
- 4.4.4. Fish
- 4.5. Conclusion
- 4.6. Data tables
- 4.6.1. Animal-Mammal
- 4.6.1.1. Animal-Mammal-Donkey/Mule
- 4.6.1.2. Animal-Mammal-Sheep
- 4.6.1.3. Animal-Mammal-Bovine
- 4.6.1.4. Animal-Mammal-Other Animals
- 4.6.2. Animal-Mammal-Bird
- 4.6.3. Animal-Insect
- 4.6.4. Animal-Fish
- 4.6.5. Animal-General
- 5. Conclusion
- 5.1. Summary
- 5.2. The metaphor-metonymy continuum
- 5.3. A corpus-based approach
- 5.3.1. Incongruity in conceptualisations of Intelligence
- 5.4. A diachronic approach
- 5.5. An interdisciplinary approach
- 5.6. Issues for future research: Sapir-Whorf, PC language and the influence of metaphor
- 6. Appendix: Additional data tables
- 6.1. Age
- 6.2. Alive/Animate
- 6.3. Beauty
- 6.4. Birth/Creation
- 6.5. Body Part-Sexual
- 6.6. Brain
- 6.7. Colour
- 6.8. Completion
- 6.9. Container
- 6.9.1. Container-Empty/Full of Nothing
- 6.10. Fat
- 6.11. Fruit/Veg
- 6.12. Good/Happy
- 6.13. Hard/Soft
- 6.14. Head
- 6.15. Health-Physical/Mental
- 6.16. Hit/Stunned
- 6.17. Human
- 6.18. Humble/Ordinary
- 6.19. Intelligence
- 6.20. Liquid/Semi-Liquid
- 6.21. Loose Texture
- 6.22. Lump
- 6.23. Mind
- 6.24. Object
- 6.25. Pure/Clean
- 6.26. Sense/Feeling
- 6.27. Shape
- 6.28. Sharp/Piercing
- 6.29. Size
- 6.30. Sound
- 6.31. Speech
- 6.32. Speed
- 6.33. Strength/Weakness
- 6.34. Value
- 6.35. Wealth/Prosperity
- 6.36. Weight
- 7. Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- General index
- Index of word forms and core concepts
- Index of references