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Novel metonymies, wine and wineskins, old and new ones

The present article is concerned with the topic of novel or creative metonymies. This topic, itself a novelty, has recently cropped up in a series of articles (e.g. Slabakova, Cabrelli Amaro and Kang 2013a and b 2016 ; Van Herwegen, Dimitrou and Rundblad 2013 ; Littlemore 2015 ; Falkum Lossius, Recasens and Clark 2017). The phenomenon in question, just like many other aspects of metonymy, such as its definition, typology, etc. is surrounded by lots of uncertainties and mystery. In this article I examine various dimensions along which the novelty of metonymy may manifest itself and argue that, unlike novel or creative metaphors, novel metonymy is actually somewhat of a unicorn of cognitive linguistics. What examples are brought up in the literature as cases of novel metonymies, turn out on closer inspection to be at best just novel instances of established and well-known types of metonymy. I also demonstrate why novel metonymies are hardly possible on theoretical grounds. However, I show in the final part of the article that metonymy may be involved in the creation of novel metaphors, specifically those realized as the XYZ construction.

metonymy ; novel metonymy ; metaphor ; conventionalization ; typology of metonymy ; XYZ construction ; paragon model

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