From Three Respectable Horses' Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base
- Author / Editor
- Goossens, Louis.
From Three Respectable Horses' Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base
- Published
- Louis Goossens, and others. By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective. Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, no. 33 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 175-204.
- Series
- Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, no. 33.
- Description
- Uses data from Aelfric, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to demonstrate how metonymy "works as a tool for meaning extension in a diachronically diverse data base," arguing that there is "something of a metonymy-metaphor continuum" and a complex relation between metonymy and conventionalization. The data (including 26 examples from Chaucer), are all concerned with "linguistic action" and involve the word "mouth" or its equivalent.
- Alternative Title
- By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies