De Gruyter Mouton Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast - Cognitive Linguistics Research

Explore the foundational cognitive strategies that shape human language and thought through this scholarly work from De Gruyter Mouton. This volume develops Roman Jakobson's influential theory that metaphor and metonymy form opposite ends of a single continuum of conceptualization processes. Building on Lakoff and Johnson's two-domain approach, the book maps the relationships between source and target domains while examining how different scholarly perspectives illuminate various points along the metaphor-metonymy spectrum. The research investigates the specialized conceptual division of labour that distinguishes these two fundamental modes of cognitive processing, offering linguists, cognitive scientists and language scholars a comprehensive analysis of how humans construct meaning through these essential mental operations.