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Sullivan, Karen Sorensen.

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Grammar in metaphor: A construction grammar account of metaphoric language.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Grammar in metaphor: A construction grammar account of metaphoric language./
Author:	Sullivan, Karen Sorensen.
Description:	497 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Eve Sweetser.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3311687
ISBN:	9780549611905

Grammar in metaphor: A construction grammar account of metaphoric language.
Sullivan, Karen Sorensen.

Grammar in metaphor: A construction grammar account of metaphoric language. - 497 p.

Adviser: Eve Sweetser.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2007.

Over the past few decades, the conceptual metaphor revolution inspired by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) has offered considerable insight into the conceptual structure of metaphor. However, interest in the conceptual characteristics of metaphor has sometimes overshadowed the question of how metaphor surfaces in language. This dissertation tackles the issue of metaphoric language by identifying how specific linguistic resources---from grammatical constructions to poetic devices---are employed to convey the conceptual structure of metaphor.

ISBN: 9780549611905Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

Grammar in metaphor: A construction grammar account of metaphoric language.
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520 $a Over the past few decades, the conceptual metaphor revolution inspired by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) has offered considerable insight into the conceptual structure of metaphor. However, interest in the conceptual characteristics of metaphor has sometimes overshadowed the question of how metaphor surfaces in language. This dissertation tackles the issue of metaphoric language by identifying how specific linguistic resources---from grammatical constructions to poetic devices---are employed to convey the conceptual structure of metaphor.
520 $a The dissertation focuses on the role of grammatical constructions in metaphoric language. In metaphoric phrases that can be understood out of context, such as bright idea, the dissertation argues that words in particular constructional slots indicate the source domain of a conceptual metaphor (i.e. are "metaphoric"), and words in other slots represent the metaphor's target domain (typically with a "non-metaphoric" meaning). For example, bright idea is interpretable partly because the source-domain predicating adjective bright (metaphorically meaning "intelligent") modifies the target-domain "non-metaphoric" noun idea. A similar phrase with a target-domain adjective and a source-domain noun, such as intelligent light, lacks the meaning "intelligent idea".
520 $a The patterns underlying metaphoric uses of constructions can be explained in terms of conceptual autonomy and conceptual dependence (cf. Langacker 1987, Croft 2003), which the dissertation models using semantic frames (cf. Fillmore 1982). In non-metaphoric uses of constructions, conceptually autonomous elements "fill in," or elaborate , the meaning of conceptually dependent elements. In metaphoric language, the autonomous elements' elaboration process includes the designation of a target domain, which forces the dependent elements to be interpreted "metaphorically".
520 $a The dissertation extends this analysis to numerous constructions, including domain constructions, as in mental exercise; preposition phrase constructions, as in the foundation of an argument; predicate-argument constructions; equations; idioms; constructional combinations; and techniques of metaphor evocation that are usually limited to literary genres, such as parallelism and "negation of the literal". One chapter addresses the problem of metaphor look-alikes, by introducing a series of tests to distinguish genuine metaphor from the results of non-metaphoric semantic changes. The dissertation also includes a chapter on Finnish constructions, demonstrating that the analysis employed here can be applied to languages other than English.
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