Home Releases # 7, volume 1, 2012

ON CONCEPTUAL METONYMY

Linguistics

Authors

  • Trukhanovskaya Natalia Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor

Annotation

The article focuses on metonymy as a language and conceptual phenomenon. Metonymical transfer is regarded not only as a means of developing the meaning of the word, but also in the context of cognitive linguistics, as a transfer within a conceptual domain or as a shift of domains within the domain matrix. The article also interprets metonymy as a cognitive mechanism that underlies the change of perspective in conceptualizing the situation, which enables us to introduce the concept of interlingual metonymy.
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