Metaphor, metonymy and image-schemas : an analysis of conceptual interaction patterns

Metaphor and Metonymy

Metonymy, as often treated as a subtype of metaphor by cognitive linguistics, has a different working mechanism; metaphor is based on perceived similarity between things while metonymy on the relationship within things themselves. Cognition and the use of language involve the access and manipulation of mental spaces, which are constructed from human perceptual experience and are extended throug...

Processing Metonymy and Metaphor

The aim of the book is a semantic theory of metonymy and metaphor, called "collative semantics," and its implementation in the meta5 program. Before entering the core of the topic, Fass gives the reader definitions for some tropes (figures of speech), most, if not all of them, related to metaphor and metonymy (Chapter 2). The tropes are classified according to their nature: comparison, contigui...

Metaphor and Metonymy in Object-Oriented Design Patterns

Generating Polysemy: Metaphor and Metonymy

In this paper I want to show why metaphor and metonymy are, on the one hand side, two distinct types of generating new meanings for existing expressions, and why, on the other hand, there are many cases which can either been viewed as metaphor or as metonymy, without the one way of understanding excluding the other. After having given a general characterization of metaphoric and metonymic conce...

Conceptual metaphor, human-computer interaction and music : applying conceptual metaphor to the design and analysis of music interactions

Interaction design for domains that involve complex abstractions can present significant challenges. This problem is particularly acute in domains where users lack effective means to conceptualise and articulate relevant abstractions. In this thesis, we investigate the use of domain-specific conceptual metaphors to address the challenge of presenting complex abstractions, using tonal harmony as...