‘I’ as a Pure Indexical and Metonymy as Language Reduction

Romero, Esther; Soria, Belén

doi:10.1007/11508373_33

Cited by 3 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These assumptions contrast with our position since we find it right to speak about imaginative metaphor as a different phenomenon from literal metaphor. This, in our opinion, coincides with Lakoff and Johnson's former proposal (Romero andSoria 1997/1998). In Lakoff and Johnson (1980) there is no account of how to identify or interpret metaphoric utterBrought to you by | University of Georgia Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/28/15 9:34 PM ances, but they recognize that some metaphors are parts not used of our concepts and that these parts must be interpreted nonliterally.…”

Section: Metaphoric Concepts and Expressions From A Cognitive Metaphosupporting

confidence: 79%

“…2. The distinction between conventional and novel metaphor parallels this one (see, e.g., Indurkhya 1992;and Romero and Soria 1998). 3.…”

Section: University Of Granadamentioning

confidence: 91%

“…1. This is the motivation of what we call "contextual abnormality", see section 4 in this article and also Romero andSoria (1997/1998). 2.…”

Section: University Of Granadamentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Abnormality (or anomaly or deviation or incongruity) has been used by other authors such as Kittay (1987), Ortony (1980), or Bailin (1999 as the main criterion for the identification of metaphor, but we disagree because we do not describe the criterion in the same way (abnormality is not described here as a literal falsehood or as a semantic deviance, rather it is characterized as a case of contextual departure from conventional language usage) and we think that, although it is a necessary condition for the identification of imaginative metaphors, it is not sufficient. Abnormality does not suffice; it does not even serve to delimit the nonliteral use of language from others; abnormality may be found in non-sense utterances, Brought to you by | University of Georgia Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/28/15 9:34 PM fictional utterances and in metonymy (Romero and Soria 2003). Thus, to delimit them we have to find an additional criterion, which in metaphor is the conceptual contrast.…”

Section: Some Characteristics Of Imaginative Metaphoric Utterancesmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Thus, when our utterances make reference to these concepts, the utterances are not metaphorical. From a synchronic point of view, they should be described as literal utterances (Romero and Soria 1998).…”

Section: Some Characteristics Of Imaginative Metaphoric Utterancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Revisited

Romero

Soria

2005

Jlse

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper provides a framework which, being compatible with Lakoff and Johnson's theory (1980), allows a description of metaphoric verbal utterances. The development of this theoretical expansion is encouraged by Lakoff and Johnson's distinction between nonliteral and literal metaphoric expressions, and by the fact that they do not provide an explanation of the nonliteral metaphoric use of expressions as distinct from the literal metaphoric one. They simply say that metaphoric expressions are nonliteral when they are parts that are not used in our normal metaphoric concepts. This suggestion is included in our model, in which a metaphoric utterance is identified when the speaker perceives both a contextual abnormality and a conceptual contrast, and it is interpreted using, among other things, a pragmatic process of mapping to derive subpropositional metaphoric provisional meanings. This explanation of the metaphoric mechanism allows an explanation of the utterances in which nonliteral metaphoric expressions intervene without having to resort to a previous literal interpretation of these utterances.

show abstract

Section: Metaphoric Concepts and Expressions From A Cognitive Metaphosupporting

confidence: 79%

“…2. The distinction between conventional and novel metaphor parallels this one (see, e.g., Indurkhya 1992;and Romero and Soria 1998). 3.…”

Section: University Of Granadamentioning

confidence: 91%

“…1. This is the motivation of what we call "contextual abnormality", see section 4 in this article and also Romero andSoria (1997/1998). 2.…”

Section: University Of Granadamentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Some Characteristics Of Imaginative Metaphoric Utterancesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Some Characteristics Of Imaginative Metaphoric Utterancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Revisited

Romero

Soria

2005

Jlse

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Phrasal Pragmatics in Robyn Carston’s Programme

Romero¹,

Soria²

2010

Explicit Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Experiences Made of Wool: Visual and Verbal Metaphorical Reconceptualization in Adoption and Foster Care Narratives

Calvo-Maturana¹

2021

ODISEA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper aims at exploring adoption and foster care discourse (AFD) so as to uncover the role of multimodal novel metaphor, and the resulting ad hoc concepts, in (re)addressing (AF) narratives. It specifically focuses on the picture book Speranza’s Sweater (Pusey and Mello, 2018), and the extended conceptual metaphor a life story (of a child [in adoption or foster care]) is a sweater, as well as the net of minor related metaphors. These are analysed following Romero and Soria’s (1997, 2005a, 2007, 2014 and 2016) as well as Forceville (1994, 2008)’s frameworks on, respectively, novel and multimodal metaphors. Dictionaries, thesauri, corpus-assisted tools, as well as close reading/viewing will inform the delineation of source and target domains. The paper illustrates and concludes the cognitive power of multimodal creative choices in relation to (AFD) to integrate children’s past, present, and future experiences, while strengthening their sense of identity and belonging.

show abstract

‘I’ as a Pure Indexical and Metonymy as Language Reduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Revisited

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Revisited

Phrasal Pragmatics in Robyn Carston’s Programme

Experiences Made of Wool: Visual and Verbal Metaphorical Reconceptualization in Adoption and Foster Care Narratives

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About