1 / 11

If -clauses and their figurative basis

If -clauses and their figurative basis. Positions Both cognitive processes, metonymy and metaphor, form parts of a system that paves the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions;

cybil
Download Presentation

If -clauses and their figurative basis

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. If-clauses and their figurative basis Positions Both cognitive processes, metonymy and metaphor, form parts of a system that paves the ground for the semantic organization and the communicative effect of grammatical constructions; (b) although both processes encourage the meaning extension of grammatical constructions, metonymy seems to be more ubiquitous than metaphor, the latter process being most of the times based on preexisting metonymy; (c) each one of the two processes operates differently depending on the lexical items employed, on the concepts and on the situation they are used in.

  2. DOMAIN OF CONDITIONALITY COURSE OF EVENTNESS HYPOTHETICALITY PRAGMATICITY

  3. HYPOTHETICAL CONDITIONALS PREDICTIVE if PREREQUISITE if providing, provided, on condition that SUPPOSITIONAL if suppose, supposing, assuming

  4. COURSE OF EVENTS CONDITIONALS DESCRIPTIVE if INSTRUCTIVE if INFERENCING if

  5. Predictive Conditional (1) If there is no water in your radiator, the engine will overheat immediately. (COB) My claim is that this type of extension is a metonymic one. The questions to be answered are why figuration and why metonymy and not metaphor, the process responsible for the elaboration of predictive hypothetical conditionals. Causality and temporality are basic aspects of the domain of hypotheticality to a greater or lesser degree. We will see that they are either strongly or weakly represented in subtypes of hypothetical conditionals.

  6. This indeterminate use of if reflects what Langacker (2009: 46) says: “explicit linguistic coding gets us into the right neighborhood, but from there we have to find the right address by some other means”. If indicates the neighborhood but in order “to find the right address” we are based on capacities such as metaphor, metonymy, (blending, …). The process that licenses the elaboration from hypotheticality to prediction is the process of conceptual metonymy, and not conceptual metaphor. The concepts of hypotheticality and prediction are contiguous; they are basically linked, in addition to the temporal, in a cause and effect way.

  7. Prerequisite Conditional (2) Sure you can borrow the car, providing you get it back to me before 10 o’clock. (LDCE) (3) The clove-pink needs no special cultivation, provided it has well-drained soil. (Thesaurus.com) (4) The public are admitted to the galleries, providing they make a small donation. (Thesaurus.com) (5) He let Guapo drive on condition that Cherry sat up front too, to keep an eye on him. (www.collinsdictionary.com)

  8. Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar (2009: 36) Figure 20. Mutual dependency of metonymy/metaphor and lexicogrammar

  9. Suppositional Conditional (6) Suppose/supposing you went bald, what would you do? (2005: 106) (7) We'd love to come and see you on Saturday, supposing (= if) I don't have to work that day. (Cambridge Dictionaries Online) (8) Suppose we missthetrain- what will we do then? (9) Suppose he had been murdered—what then? (dictionary.reference.com) (10) Suppose we leave this to the police. (11) Even assuming he understands the problem, he will never take any action.(dictionary.com) (12) Assuming the house is for sale, would you buy it?(www,thefreedictionary.com)

  10. Course of Events (Factual) Conditional (13) But if there has been rain and there is good pasture, then the egg now restarts its development (1996: 616). (14) You should call a doctor to diagnose and treat your child if there is a rash, certainly if there is a fever or the child feels sick (1996: 627). (15) If these reports are as good as they look, your chaps should be getting a little more rest before long (1996: 624).

  11. High-level metonymy grounded in high-level metaphor The meaning extension from potential reality to hypotheticality is motivated by the metaphor: HYPOTHETICALITY IS POTENTIAL REALITY By means of the conceptual metonymy HYPOTHETICALITY FOR REALITY a factual observation is presented as if it is hypothetical

More Related