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Process of mapping between two different conceptual domains
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Target »topic or concept you want to describe through the metaphor Source »concept that you draw upon in order to create the metaphorical construction Conceptual Domains
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Target domain: –concept of anger Source domain: –“heated fluid in a container” Standard notation: –ANGER IS A HEATED FLUID IN A CONTAINER. She really blew her lid.
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Talk about letting off steam… She really blew her lid, I mean really blew her top. She just exploded! - comprises four clauses - comprises one metaphor - expresses the same source and target domain - same standard notation
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The third mechanized infantry are currently clearing up parts of the Al Mansur Saddam village area. –Target domain: concept of war –Source domain: idea of cleaning –Standard notation: WAR AS CLEANING.
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Based on transfer within a single conceptual domain Involves transpositions between associated concepts
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Metonymy commonly results in transfer between: - Part and the whole * hired hand - Producer and produced * Have you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Institution and location * Malacañang is thought to be furious.
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My office is a jungle of papers. The White House supports the bill.
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Metaphor -substitution is based on similarity Metonymy - substitution is based on contiguity (connection)
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Conversion of an expression into a simile
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IS LIKE formula (Metaphor) ANGER IS A HEATED FLUID IN A CONTAINER. –ANGER IS LIKE A HEATED FLUID IN A CONTAINER. WAR AS CLEANING. –WAR IS LIKE CLEANING.
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IS LIKE formula (Metonymy) ‘hired hand’ –A worker is like a hand. Have you read Edgar Allan Poe? –Edgar Allan Poe is like a novel. Malacañang is thought to be furious. –Government is like Malacañang.
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1. Meronmymic Agency - involves the part ‘standing for’ the whole in such a way as to place a human body apart, rather than a whole person 2. Technique in caricature - Form of metonymic distortion - Distortion of human appearance
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