Exaggerating and mitigating through metonymy: The case of situational and CAUSE FOR EFFECT/EFFECT FOR CAUSE metonymies

Publication date: Available online 5 September 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Javier Herrero-RuizAbstractAlthough metonymy has been the object of an outstanding amount of research, the issue of how it can accomplish mitigation or exaggeration effects has received scant attention from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics.By analysing the underlying cognitive operations, the aim of this paper is to go beyond previous research in order to demonstrate how some cases of understatement and overstatement can be explained via metonymies in a systematic way. We shall show how (1) situational metonymies that stand for an initial/final stage in a given scenario, and (2) CAUSE FOR EFFECT and EFFECT FOR CAUSE metonymies respectively (the latter complemented by metaphors, similes, or...

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