Anger metonymies in a crosslinguistic perspective
Starting out from Lakoff and Kövecses’ (1987) work, this paper examines the relationship between anger metaphors and metonymies using data from 25 languages. Specifically, by relying on a large crosslinguistic dataset, our paper seeks to explain how metonymies motivate metaphors, why anger metaphors...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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CogniTextes
2026
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | Starting out from Lakoff and Kövecses’ (1987) work, this paper examines the relationship between anger metaphors and metonymies using data from 25 languages. Specifically, by relying on a large crosslinguistic dataset, our paper seeks to explain how metonymies motivate metaphors, why anger metaphors take specific forms, and how precisely metonymies produce metaphors. Through systematic crosslinguistic analysis, the findings confirm that metonymies provide the primary motivation for anger metaphors, though with varying degrees of salience. Furthermore, categorizing metonymies into Intensity, Undesirability, and Control groups, the study highlights how these categories give rise to metaphors via processes such as schematization, feature sharing, and analogy. Ultimately, the study throws new light on issues related to embodiment, the metaphor-metonymy relationship, and the role of metonymy in conceptualizing abstract concepts, while emphasizing the need for broader linguistic diversity in future studies. |
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