Some Challenges of Metaphor and Metonymy Interpretation
Some Challenges of Metaphor and Metonymy Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: The essential idea of this paper is that the framework of cognitive linguistics – conceptual analysis and conceptual metaphor – enables a more comprehensive and precise insight into lexico-semantic research. Some lexicological phenomena, such as mechanisms for generating new meanings of lexemes (lexical metaphor and metonymy), can be better observed from a more profound perspective, provided by conceptual metaphor and metonymy. This insight has motivated the bold hypothesis presented in this paper: namely, verbal or adjectival metaphor and metonymy seem not to exist; all cases of metaphor and metonymy are actually nominal. In lexical relations established in phrases, the verb and the adjective simply adapt to the noun in order to activate the metaphorical or metonymical dispersion of the given noun.

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