Essays about: "conceptual metonymy"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words conceptual metonymy.

1. 6. To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Anna Lodén; [2017]
   Keywords : Conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; mapping; source domain; linguistics;

   Abstract : This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. READ MORE

3. 7. How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Hanna Lindblom; [2017]
   Keywords : Metaphor; metonymy; embodied motivation; idioms; body parts; comparative.;

   Abstract : Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. READ MORE

4. 8. Cognitively Motivated Meanings for Idioms : The Metaphorical and Metonymical Structures of two Semantically Equivalent but Structurally Different Idioms in English and Swedish

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Björn Book; [2016]
   Keywords : cognitive linguistics; conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; motivation; embodiment;

   Abstract : This paper analyses the similarities and differences of the cognitive structures of the English-Swedish idiom pair to step into someone’s shoes and att axla någons mantel (to shoulder someone’s mantle [lit.]) in order to investigate possible conceptual or embodied motivations for their meanings. READ MORE

5. 9. An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Anna-Karin Burman; [2014]
   Keywords : metaphors; metonymy; conceptual metaphor; Old English; Beowulf; conventionalized metaphors; innovative metaphors; target domains; source domains; corpus studies; and experiential metaphors.;

   Abstract : This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. READ MORE

6. 10. Do You Really Want to Set Me on Fire, My Love? : The Use of Internal and External “Fire and Heat Metaphors” in some Rock Lyrics

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Kalle Larsen; [2006]
   Keywords : Fire and heat metaphor; internal metaphor; external metaphor; underlying cognitive structure; conceptual metaphor; target; source; continuum; universe of discourse;

   Abstract : The aim of this study has been to investigate whether metaphors in terms of fire and heat in rock lyrics can be interpreted figuratively as well as literally. The terms for these latter two categories are internal and external metaphors. Many rock lyrics are about love, a theme often described with the use of metaphors. READ MORE