trope, the use of words in a non-literal sense, is among the topics found in the language and literature of all nations. however, all methods of using words considered as tropes in a language, are not necessarily regarded as such in another language and literature; and occasionally there are similarities and differences among known tropes. in german language and literature 10 types of tropes ar...

In this chapter, the main reference point in Yorick Wilks’s work is Wilks (1978). This extends his preferencebased semantics (Wilks, 1975) to handling metaphor. Wilks (1978) covers a number of issues that deserve fresh comment and that are central to problems about metaphor that are still unresolved—theoretically, let alone computationally. Also, the legacy of the 1978 work stretched through to...

The study of sign language developed into a separate linguistic science in the 20th century. Sign contains many gestures, as well metaphors and metonymies. Hearing-impaired children our environment played major role examination gestures. Furthermore, it is common for scientists to draw parallel between gestural components phonemes spoken language. Metaphors metonymies play not only language, bu...

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...

Metaphor and metonymy, which are treated as two basic cognitive conceptual mechanisms in linguistics, highly interactive to each other. from a complicated linguistic device mechanism, has long been ignored although it helps create abundant implications aesthetic value poetry. This paper explores functions of metaphor metonymy meaning construction classical Chinese poetry order offer new perspec...

Pragmatic and cognitive accounts of figurative language posit a difference between metaphor and metonymy in terms of underlying conceptual operations. Recently, other pragmatic uses of words have been accounted for in the Relevance Theory framework, such as approximation, described in terms of conceptual adjustment that varies in degree and direction with respect to the case of metaphor. Despit...

Metaphor plays an important role in language creativity and knowledge representation in specialised domains, and its role has been studied by scholars in the field (e.g. Temmerman 2000; Faber and Márquez 2004; Tercedor Sánchez 2004; Ureña Gómez Moreno 2011; Vandaele and Lubin 2005). In contrast, metonymy has received little attention in terminology. In this paper, we describe salient features o...