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Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies

Week 7-8. Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies. Metaphor and Metonymy  Examples. Quotes from Shakespeare. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long as lives this, and this gives life to thee. Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life?

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Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies

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  1. Week 7-8 Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies

  2. Metaphor and Metonymy  Examples Quotes from Shakespeare So long as men can breathe or eyescan see, So long as lives this, and this gives life to thee. Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Sometimes too hot the eyeof heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed. Lo, in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight Serving with looks his sacred majesty. Mine eye and heart are at mortal war How to divide the conquest of thy sight. In which sentences, is eye being used literally? In which sentences, is it being used figuratively?

  3. Metaphor and Metonymy  Examples Quotes from Shakespeare So long as men can breathe or eyescan see, So long as lives this, and this gives life to thee. Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Sometimes too hot the eyeof heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed. Lo, in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight Serving with looks his sacred majesty. Mine eye and heart are at mortal war How to divide the conquest of thy sight. metaphor the sun the whole person metonym the whole person (as concerned with appearances) metonym metaphor

  4. Metaphor and Metonymy Based on relation of contiguity nearness neighborhood part for whole all hands on deck whole for part We filled up the car. container for content I’ll have a glass. material for object a glass, an iron producer for product We bought a Ford. place for institution talks between Washington and Moscow place for event Watergate changed U.S. politics. controlled for controller The subways are on strike.

  5. Metaphor and Metonymy Based on relation of similarity or comparison traditional analysis (Leech, 1969) Sometimes too hot the eyeof heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed. tenor vehicle ground the sun eye of heaven shape, brilliance, etc. the thing the explaining base of being explained element comparison

  6. Metaphor and Metonymy Based on relation of similarity or comparison Metaphor is very common in everyday speech (See table on p. 117). Metaphors that are not readily recognized as metaphorical by the language users are called conventionalized metaphors.

  7. Metaphor and Metonymy Based on relation of similarity or comparison Metaphor is very common in everyday speech (See table on p. 117). Can you think of similar metaphors in Japanese that are based on parts of the body? Are these conventionalized metaphors?

  8. Metaphor and Metonymy Based on relation of similarity or comparison Metaphor is very common in everyday speech (See table on p. 117). Lakoff and Johnson argue that just because a metaphor is conventionalized, we shouldn’t assume it’s dead.

  9. Metaphor and Metonymy Cognitive Linguistics - Metaphors are not just part of language. Rather, they’re ways of thinking.

  10. Metaphor and Metonymy tenor vehicle ground the sun eye of heaven shape, brilliance, etc. the thing the explaining base of being explained element comparison mapping TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT

  11. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT TIME is MONEY. You’re wasting my time. Can you give me a few minutes? How do you spend your time? We’re running out of time. Is that worth your while?

  12. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT BIRTH is a JOURNEY. LIFE is a JOURNEY. DEATH is a JOURNEY. The baby’s on its way. The baby has arrived. When we bring children into the world, we must care for them. He went through life with a good heart. She knows where she’s going in life. His heart stopped, but they brought him back. She has departed. She has passed away.

  13. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping Image schemas (grounded in bodily experience) basic correlations (also tend to be universal) cultural-dependent evaluations

  14. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping Image schemas (grounded in bodily experience)

  15. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping Image schemas (grounded in bodily experience) Example: Containment He’s in a bad mood. She came out of her depression.

  16. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping basic correlations (also tend to be universal)

  17. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping basic correlations (also tend to be universal) Example: Emotional & Physical Warmth

  18. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping cultural-dependent evaluations

  19. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping cultural-dependent evaluations Example: Associations with a Fox

  20. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping cultural-dependent evaluations Example: Associations with a Fox She’s a fox. U.S. East Asia good-looking & sexy seductive & mischievous

  21. Metaphor and Metonymy TARGET CONCEPT SOURCE CONCEPT X is Y. mapping entrenchment and degree of conventionalization

  22. Metaphor and Metonymy Provide an example of the English metaphors listed in Figure 3.5 on p. 121.

  23. Metaphor and Metonymy Which tends to be more abstract, the target or the source?

  24. Metaphor and Metonymy pp. 122-124

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