For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism

IF 2.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2021.1973870
M. S. Peña Cervel
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ABSTRACT This paper is a qualitative usage-based treatment of merism from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Considered a minor or non-basic figure of speech, especially if compared to the master tropes, metaphor and metonymy, merism is approached here as a figure of speech whose complexity has been largely and unfairly underestimated. We provide a principled account of the relationship of merism with metonymy starting off from the well-known assumption that merism is a particular kind of synecdoche. The notion of merism is delimited and used in its etymological sense, which serves as a starting point for a two-fold classification of this figurative use into contrast-based merism and merism in which contrast plays no role (bare merism). We also explore the constructions which might trigger meristic uses and the characteristics of the terms involved in meristic binomials and trinomials which make them readily available for fusion into specific syntactic patterns like “X and Y,” “both X and Y,” “X and Y alike,” “X as well as Y,” and “X, Y, and Z.”
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无论是好是坏,是富是穷,是病是健康:一种认知语言学的方法来研究Merism
本文从认知语言学的角度对分词进行定性分析。作为一种次要的或非基本的修辞格,特别是与主要的修辞手法、隐喻和转喻相比,叠体是一种其复杂性在很大程度上被不公平地低估的修辞格。我们从一个众所周知的假设出发,即分词是一种特殊的提喻,为分词与转喻的关系提供了一个原则性的说明。merism的概念被限定并在其词源意义上使用,这是将这种比喻用法分为基于对比的merism和没有对比的merism(裸merism)的双重分类的起点。我们还探讨了可能引发分生使用的结构,以及分生二项式和三项式中涉及的术语的特征,这些特征使它们很容易融合成特定的句法模式,如“X和Y”,“X和Y都是”,“X和Y一样”,“X和Y一样”,“X和Y一样”,“X, Y和z”。
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期刊介绍: Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.
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