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Indirect speech act metaphtonymies and diagrammatic iconicity

Traditional view has it that tropes are hardly anything more than just poetic figures, the whole classical complex téchn&#275 ; thus being reduced to just ornatus. Conceptual metaphor and metonymy, however, enjoy a central position in Cognitive linguistics as fundamental backbones of cognitive processes, linking human thought, language and action, while rhetoric is seen as a study of how language is put to use in promoting social cohesion between participants in an act of communication. The present paper shows (i) how indirect speech acts whose ultimate function is to maintain or enhance social cohesion can rest on conceptual metaphtonymies (combinations of metaphors and metonymies), and (ii) that these constructions, realized here as one type of indirect conditional clauses in English, at the same time exhibit an unusally high degree of diagrammatic iconicity. The metonymic aspect is due to the fact that peripheral parts of a complex Idealized Cognitive Model stand for the central one which normally determines the type of speech act. The metaphorical aspect consists in presenting the distance in conceptual and linguistic space as the distance in sociophysical space.

metaphtonymy; metaphor; metonymy; indirect speech acts; diagrammatic iconicity; conditional clauses

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