Cognitive Interpretation of Linguistic Metonymy

Author: Li Yongzhong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: The essence of this book lies in studying the phenomenon of "syntactic grammar" from the perspective of metonymy. We know that since G. Frege proposed the principles of linguistic construction, the process of language construction seems to be as simple as one plus one equals two. In reality, it is not. Contemporary syntactic grammar holds that if a sentence contains five words, according to the construction principles, the semantics of the sentence formed by these five words should naturally be the sum of their individual meanings plus the grammatical meanings between them. However, according to the view of syntactic grammar, in addition to these two aspects, the arrangement order of the five words also carries specific syntactic meaning, i.e., the "syntactic pattern meaning" mentioned in traditional grammar. When the syntactic pattern meaning conflicts with the meaning of key words within the sentence in communication, some formal adjustments will occur, and these adjustments are achieved through what is called "suppression." Traditional grammar did not take this into account, while contemporary syntactic grammar did, thereby increasing the precision of grammatical research. This book analyzes the operational state of macro speech acts using the concept of "scripts." Traditional speech acts are divided into direct and indirect categories, but they are often fragmented, lack systematicity, and suffer from excessive overlap, meaning the boundaries between the categories are not very clear, and some speech acts in one category can appear in another, and so on.