Megametaphor as a coherence and cohesion device in a cycle of literary texts

• Authors: Zoya Rezanova , Konstantin Shilyaev
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Zoya Rezanova & Konstantin Shilyaev. Megametaphor as a coherence and cohesion device in a cycle of literary texts. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 31-39 The present study is concerned with the notion of megametaphor and its role in the cohesion and coherence of the text, as well as its intertextual function. We discuss the method of identifying and structuring megametaphor in a literary text and apply it to four novels by Jack London that have dogs as their protagonists. The megametaphor DOG IS A MAN is shown to organize the texts both conceptually - via a coherent set of frame structures of the source domain - and linguistically, by way of applying a network of metaphorical lexemes to the description of a dog.

Keywords

EN

megametaphor; conceptual metaphor theory; cohesion; coherence; J. London

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Lingua Posnaniensis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 31-40

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-06-29

Contributors

author

Zoya Rezanova

• Department of General, Slavic-Russian Linguistics and Classical Philology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk
• Department of Russian as a Foreign Language, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk

author

Konstantin Shilyaev

• Department of General, Slavic-Russian Linguistics and Classical Philology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/linpo-2015-0009