Studying Metonymy in Persian and the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models

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Gandomkar Raheleh; TABIBZADEH OMID

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Journal: ZABANPAZHUHI (Iranian Journal of Language Research) Year:2017 | Volume:9 | Issue:23 Page(s): 151-176

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Studying Metonymy in Persian and the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models

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Gandomkar Raheleh | TABIBZADEH OMID | Issue Writer Certificate

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meaning-constructionQ1

decreasingQ1

metonymyQ2

Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models theoryQ1

cognitive semanticsQ1

Abstract

metonymy is one of the most important processes of semantic change in the language, which besides receiving a high degree of attention by rhetoricians and historical semanticists, has been, at least for three decades, considered by cognitive semanticists as a process at work in everyday speech. The theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM) proposed by Vyvyan Evans in 2006 in the form of an article and within the framework of cognitive semantics explains how the meaning functions in the language, especially based on metaphoric and metonymic processes and how the speakers understand these processes. Based on this theory, words don’ t have ‘ meanings’ in and of themselves and the meaning of a word is subordinate to the utterance in which it occurs. The present article studies this theory with data in the Persian language, evaluating the process of metonymy within LCCM framework. It concludes that first, distinguishing absolute meaninglessness in words, in a word-based approach, is essentially considered a methodological problem. Second, one cannot synchronically distinguish a process called metonymy, especially in its traditional definition; instead, it should be considered a process based on ‘ decreasing’ on the syntagmatic axis, not a process based on the proximity of two concepts on the paradigmatic axis. Thus, words can be considered as units that have meaning when decontextualized, but are not ‘ meaningful’ . Such a view liberates us from the troublesome framework of word-based approaches.

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Gandomkar, Raheleh, & TABIBZADEH, OMID. (2017). Studying Metonymy in Persian and the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models. JOURNAL OF ZABANPAZHUHI, 9(23 ), 151-176. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/187959/en

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Gandomkar Raheleh, TABIBZADEH OMID. Studying Metonymy in Persian and the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models. JOURNAL OF ZABANPAZHUHI[Internet]. 2017;9(23 ):151-176. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/187959/en

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Raheleh Gandomkar, and OMID TABIBZADEH, “Studying Metonymy in Persian and the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models,” JOURNAL OF ZABANPAZHUHI, vol. 9, no. 23 , pp. 151–176, 2017, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/187959/en

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