Creative compounding in English : the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun-noun combinations / Réka Benczes.

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Creative Compounding in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; Notation; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction and some basic concepts; 1.1. Scope of this study; 1.2. What is a compound?; 1.3. Endocentric and exocentric compounds; 1.4. Nonce words and neologisms; 1.5. The data; 1.6. Structure of the book; I. Theory and past approaches; 2. Descriptivists, transformationalists and alternative theories; 2.1. Descriptivist approaches; 2.2. Analyses within the transformationalist/generativist framework.

2.3. Alternative approaches2.4. Summary; 3. Cognitive linguistics; 3.1. Establishing a new linguistic philosophy; 3.2. The Langackerian system of grammar; 3.3. Conceptual metaphor; 3.4. Conceptual metonymy; 3.5. Blending; 3.6. Methodology; 3.7. Summary; 4. Compositionality and transparency; 4.1. Contested concepts; 4.2. Idiomaticity; 4.3. Storage versus computation?; 4.4. Summary; II. Analysing creative compounds; 5. Metaphor-based compounds; 5.1. Metaphor-based modifier; 5.2. Metaphor-based profile determinant.

5.3. Double metaphorical processing: metaphor-based modifier and profile determinant5.4. Summary; 6. Metaphor-based semantic relation between the constituents of the compound; 6.1. Image metaphors; 6.2. Monsters and zombies; 6.3. Personification: bandit sign; 6.4. Single-scope blends; 6.5. Double-scope blends; 6.6. Summary; 7. Metonymy-based compounds; 7.1. Metonymy-based modifier; 7.2. Metonymy-based profile determinant; 7.3. Double metonymical processing: metonymy-based modifier and profile determinant; 7.4. The compound as a whole is metonymical.

7.5. Metonymy-based relation between the two constituents of the compound7.6. Summary; 8. Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds; 8.1. Metaphor-based semantic relationship between the constituents of the compound and metonymy-based modifier; 8.2. Metaphor-based semantic relationship between the constituents of the compound and metonymy-based profile determinant; 8.3. Metonymy-based modifier and metaphor based profile determinant; 8.4. Metaphor-based modifier and metonymy-based profile determinant; 8.5. Summary; 9. A brief overview and the wider perspective.

9.1. The results: systematic creativity9.2. Alternative construal and motivation; 9.3. The wider perspective; Appendix; References; General index; Metaphor and metonymy index; The series Human Cognitive Processing.

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds - novel and lexicalised ones alike - are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun-noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive.

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