Title: Metaphor and Metonymy——two footstones of cognition
Abstract: The present paper starts from the cognitive linguistics,probing into the inseparable relationship among the language, human mind and cognition.Metaphor and metonymy,with great cognitive functions,are two important cognitive approaches rather than single language phenomena.Metaphor takes similarity as its base,while metonymy depends on contiguity in human mind,so metonymy is not a kind of metaphor as some scholars supposed it to be.Metaphor and metonymy can be assumed as two footstones of human cognition, and should stand as two independent approaches to share the equal importance and power in human cognition.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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