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Talk about the impact of metaphor metonymy

Author: LangJia
Tutor: XuHaiMing
School: Shanghai International Studies University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Metaphor Metonymy Contains
CLC: H05
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract

Metaphor long history , dating back to ancient Greece rhetorical studies . Two thousand years, the interest in the phenomenon of metaphor and research through a number of philosophers , writers, rhetoricians and linguists , has been passed down . Every moment we are all thinking activities are closely linked with the metaphor . Metaphorical language studies in recent years become a hot topic . People were from the understanding of science, linguistics , psycholinguistics and other aspects of metaphor research. Metaphors are closely linked with another rhetorical metonymy rarely mentioned , this paper focuses on exploring the relationship between metaphor and metonymy . The traditional theory of rhetoric as the metaphor and metonymy two parallel rhetoric , linguistics and modern knowledge in heavy and light metaphor metonymy tendency of many theories often metonymy metaphor as a metaphor of a species. In this paper, the relationship between metaphor and metonymy to analyze and propose a hypothesis: each contains in both metaphor metonymy . This paper reviews the theoretical study of traditional metaphors to talk about the development trend of the modern study of metaphor in the consolidated elaborate ? Aristotle,? Lakoff,? Warren, Shu Dingfang other foreign scholars Metaphor Theory and Practice under the general framework of the metaphor and exchange Yu and some related concepts are defined , and to be an example to explain the specific differences between the two analyzes . Metaphor is based on the similarity between things , and metonymy is focused on the characteristics of the thing itself or its other special relationship between things . Based on the traditional relationship between metaphor and metonymy to analyze the four views , the article focuses on one point: metonymy metaphorical mapping internal mapping is a prerequisite . The paper cited a number of examples to illustrate , while the use of positive and negative examples of this method to verify the invariance proposition , and contains a description of metonymy instead of metaphor metonymy metaphor implies .

Talk about the impact of metaphor metonymy

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