{"id":2632,"date":"2013-11-07T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2015-01-07T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T02:45:31","slug":"review-of-metonymy-and-metaphor-in-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Metonymy and metaphor in grammar<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metonymy and metaphor in grammar.<\/strong> Ed. by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg<\/strong>, and Antonio Barcelona<\/strong>. (Human cognitive processing 25.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. viii, 423. ISBN 9789027223791. $149 (Hb).
\nReviewed by Siaw-Fong Chung<\/strong> and Heng-ming Kang<\/strong>, National Chengchi University<\/p>\n

The editors hint that an important notion of this book is \u2018how figurative thought might influence grammar\u2019 (1) and how one\u2019s grammar structure could be \u2018motivated … by conceptual-pragmatic factors\u2019 (4). Ronald W. Langacker presents several grammatical structures (e.g. prepositional phrase constructional schema) using metonymic representations. Several important concepts such as \u2018active zones\u2019 of a \u2018profiled relation\u2019 (48), reference points (52), and buried connections (61) are introduced.<\/p>\n

In Part 1, \u2018Word class meaning and word formation\u2019, Wiltrud Mihatsch tries to find evidence in Indo-European languages to confirm Langacker\u2019s idea that \u2018all nouns … are conceptualized as THING\u2019 (75). Margarida Basilio explains how \u2018metonymic processes\u2019 are required to understand nouns in Brazilian Portuguese (e.g. from an OBJECT, piano, to an ACTIVITY performed with the object) (103). The formation of agent nouns with [[X]-ista] constructions that \u2018denote people with reference to political, theoretical, or religious bodies of ideas\u2019 is one example (106). Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader, and Art D. Clarito state that ka- in Tagalog serves a similar function as English -er\/-or when \u2018denoting an agent or instrument\u2019 (111), and the semantics of this morpheme could be understood metonymically.
\nIn Part 2, \u2018Case and aspect\u2019, Wolfgang Schulze uses the local cases of the East Caucasian languages Aghul and the Udi as examples to discuss how their understanding requires metaphorization. Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg argue that a chain of metonymy and metaphor meanings is required to understand the French pass\u00e9 simple to be \u2018a past tense with a perfective sense\u2019 (192).<\/p>\n

In Part 3, \u2018Proper names and noun phrases\u2019, G\u00fcnter Radden tries to approach the English generic reference from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, comparing the representative generic (indefinite singular), the proportional generic (indefinite plural), the kind generic (definite singular), and the delimited generic (definite plural). Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szab\u00f3 argue that the adverbial replacements for metonymic subjects are metonymic, which involves a two-tiered metonymy, PART FOR WHOLE and CAPITAL FOR GOVERNMENT. Mario Brdar later investigates two metonymic cases, WHOLE FOR PART in animal grinding and woods and MANNER FOR ACTION in predicative adjectives.<\/p>\n

In Part 4, \u2018Predicate and clause constructions\u2019, Rosario Caballero relies on a corpus of collected architecture magazines to investigate motion predicates, especially when used in architectural discourse as opposed to general context. Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee propose a metonymic three-stage process of grammaticalization to account for the development from causative-resultatives to conventionalized scenarios in Singaporean, Malaysian, and British English. Rita Brdar-Szab\u00f3 finds out that in English and German, stand-alone conditionals can serve as indirect directives, but this is not the case in Hungarian and Croatian.<\/p>\n

Finally, in Part 5, \u2018Metonymic and metaphoric motivations of grammatical meaning\u2019, M. Sandra Pe\u00f1a Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez focus on two image-schemas\u2014the path-end-of-path transformation and the multiplex-mass transformation. Antonio Barcelona observes different types of prototypical and non-prototypical constructions in a corpus of short, constructed conversations. One\u2019s knowledge of the grammatical constructions will provide the background for metonymic inference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metonymy and metaphor in grammar. Ed. by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, and Antonio Barcelona. (Human cognitive processing 25.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. viii, 423. ISBN 9789027223791. $149 (Hb). Reviewed by Siaw-Fong Chung and Heng-ming Kang, National Chengchi University The editors hint that an important notion of this book is \u2018how figurative thought might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}