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Metaphor and Metonymy in the Formation of Neologisms

Author: QiYanBing
Tutor: ChenJiaXu
School: Zhejiang University of Finance
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: New English words Metaphor Metonymy Working mechanism
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Traditional Western linguistics, metaphor and metonymy just pure rhetoric and literature which linguistic phenomenon. However, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson proposed the metaphor, not only as a purely linguistic phenomenon, its our conceptual system also plays a dominant role. Their view that: most of the human mind is metaphorical; human conceptual system is dominated by the metaphorical structure thus defined. Since then, research on metaphor and metonymy turned to another stage. Lakoff and Johnson on metaphor basic viewpoints, gradually developed into a theory of conceptual metaphor. Lakoff and Johnson that the metaphor is not purely linguistic phenomenon, but for a wide range of reasoning and understanding means. The metaphor of the typical characteristics of concrete to the abstract concept. More broadly, the human conceptual system is metaphorical. This view claimed that the traditional metaphor metaphor for rhetorical aesthetics means in different ways. Book Metaphors We Live By, Lakkoff and Johnson did not directly given exactly the definition of metonymy, but with a chapter devoted to detailed metonymy. They are mentioned in the book: \(Lakoff and Johnson, 1980: 36). Creative activities of human social, cultural and psychological reality, metaphor and metonymy plays an important role in the understanding of the activities of thinking and reasoning process. The language and thought of metaphor and metonymy from the practical activities of the people themselves, this view is clearly divided into the traditional metaphors concept Metaphorical. Metaphor and metonymy conceptualization. Metaphor based similarity. Metonymy is easy to perceive, highlight, and easy to remember, easily recognizable part instead of the whole or part, or Gestalt perception of the whole instead of part of the cognitive process. The vocabulary metaphor and metonymy generation derived from the human body experience and the experience of everyday life. In daily life, people often reference familiar, tangible, concrete concept understanding, thinking, experience and express the intangible, difficult to define the concept, to form interdisciplinary thinking cognitive style language with the same cognitive cognitive patterns within the mutual conversion of these two ways of thinking is basically carried out on the basis of the concept of metaphor and metonymy. Most of the human language originally used the process to create and use the first batch of vocabulary that specific things. Human gradually gained from these specific concepts into abstract thinking ability, often by means of these specific things vocabulary to express abstract concepts, which constitutes a system of human thought. This article will be closely related to the human life within the three areas of new English words as research subjects: Technology new words, new words, political and economic network of new words. As among the most active factor in the language, the vocabulary is very sensitive to the changes in the social life of. With the development of science and technology, scientific, technical, economic, political, network and other fields undergoing rapid changes. New words along with the birth of new ideas, new things, constantly integrated into all aspects of people's lives. Today, fast, regular growth in English vocabulary people use scientific means to be described interpretation, such scientific description and interpretation, not only to meet the needs of the development of the theory and the practical significance of the study deepened. However, the definition of new English words, has become the focus of controversial. Different scholars of new English words from different aspects of the study, to give a different definition. This article from the new words the two main description of the level, the time level with the significance level to start, the definition of new English words: used to the reaction new inventions, new phenomenon in new words, old words given new meanings of words. Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor and metonymy is the basic mindset is a strong and effective tool of conceptualization, this thesis intends to start from the working mechanisms of metaphor and metonymy, the main use of Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognitive linguistics, explore how the working mechanisms of metaphor and metonymy such mechanism contributed in the process of the formation of new words, new words formed to further explore. In addition, the source of new words, the choice of the new words, metaphor and metonymy as a cognitive means differences with traditional rhetorical devices such as a series of related issues will be elaborated on in this article.

Metaphor and Metonymy in the Formation of Neologisms

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