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Diyanati, Masoumeh, Onysko, Alexander |
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SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics; 2019, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p49-60, 12p |
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Metonymy has been discussed as one constitutive process among others in the formation of figurative compound meaning in previous research. An explicit focus on the qualitative types of metonymic processes involved in the construction of compound meaning, however, has so far not been pursued. The current study zooms in on metonymy as a constitutive phenomenon of compound meaning taking Persian compounds as a test case. An analysis of 166 Persian noun-noun compounds that contain one metonymical part is geared at answering the question of whether the type of metonymy affects the construction of meaning in the metonymical compounds. The analysis reveals that there are different degrees of metonymic complexity, based on the relation between the metonymical element and the referent. While in some cases, the metonymical constituent does not match with the referent, there are other cases where the metonymical named element represents the referent name in a subordinate relation or is expressed directly in the referent name. In addition, metonymical complexity depends on the prototypical nature of the metonymic association in the frame-based combination of the compound constituents. These two factors imply that a continuum can be postulated that ranges from simple metonymies to complex metonymies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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