On Multiple Metonymies Within Indirect Speech Acts

• Authors: Krzysztof Kosecki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Indirect speech acts are frequently structured by more than a single metonymy. The metonymies are related not only to the illocutionary force of the utterances, but also function within the individual lexemes being their parts. An indirect speech act can thus involve not only multiple, but also multi-levelled operation of conceptual metonymy.

Keywords

EN

conceptual distance; construal of salience; idealized cognitive model (ICM); indirect directive; indirect speech act; metonymic chain; metonymy; multiple metonymies; multi-levelled metonymies; zone activation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 213-219

Dates

published

2007-01-01

online

2007-12-18

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Kosecki

• University of Łódź

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-007-0010-6