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- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse
- Metaphor
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Metaphor in Cognition
- Part II More than Metaphor
- 7 Source Actions Ground Metaphor via Metonymy: Toward a Frame-Based Account of Gestural Action in Multimodal Discourse
- 8 Metaphor and Other Cognitive Operations in Interaction: From Basicity to Complexity
- 9 On the Role of Embodied Cognition in the Understanding and Use of Metonymy
- Part III Metaphor in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
9 - On the Role of Embodied Cognition in the Understanding and Use of Metonymy
from Part II - More than Metaphor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2017
- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse
- Metaphor
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Metaphor in Cognition
- Part II More than Metaphor
- 7 Source Actions Ground Metaphor via Metonymy: Toward a Frame-Based Account of Gestural Action in Multimodal Discourse
- 8 Metaphor and Other Cognitive Operations in Interaction: From Basicity to Complexity
- 9 On the Role of Embodied Cognition in the Understanding and Use of Metonymy
- Part III Metaphor in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The majority of the chapters in this book focus on the symbiotic relationship between embodied cognition and metaphor. In contrast, this chapter focuses on the relationship between embodied cognition and metonymy. It argues that metonymy is also embodied, but in a different way, and that the social, environmental, dynamic, and developmental aspects of embodied cognition can be expected to play an important role in shaping metonymic meaning. It is suggested that the relative transparency of the role played by embodied cognition in metonymy creation is influenced by the presence of movement and emotion, with increases in the amount of movement and emotion leading to increases in the transparency of embodied cognition. Following Deignan et al. (2013), it is also suggested that the transparency of the role played by embodied cognition is affected by features of the genre (communicative purpose, staging, and discourse community membership) and the register (field, tenor, and mode).
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- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse, pp. 160 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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