Naslov
Metonymic layers in signed languages

Autori
Brdar, Mario ; Brdar-Szabó, Rita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
International Seminar on Sign Language Research 2021: Current Issues in Sign Language Research

Mjesto i datum
Gwangju, Republika Koreja, 23.10.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
sign language ; metonymy ; lexicon ; grammar ; complex metonymy ; motivation

Sažetak
In an important paper on metonymy, Barcelona (2012) provides evidence that metonymy is more than just a lexical phenomenon, i.e. that demonstrates its role in in conceptualization, phonology, grammar and discourse-pragmatic inferencing. In short, metonymy is a conceptual mechanism (an inferential schema) operating under the lexicon (in phonological categorization and in the meaning and grammatical behavior of certain morphemes), in the lexicon, and above the lexicon (motivating other grammatical phenomena, especially grammatical recategorization, and partially guiding discourse-pragmatic inferencing, especially indirect speech acts and implicatures). In light of the fact that “lexical metonymies are often at the same time grammatical and discourse metonymies” (254), we realize that metonymy is “a ubiquitous, multilevel phenomenon” . This is also in keeping with the Equipollence Hypothesis (Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009, Ruiz de Mendoza & Luzondo Oyón 2012), one of the methodological pillars of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), according to which cognitive and linguistic processes found to be at work in one domain of linguistic inquiry are expected to be active in other domains, too. It is our intention in this talk, firstly, to show that metonymy is also pervasive in signed languages (and not only in spoken/written languages) and that it occurs at several levels or layers. Secondly, we are going to demonstrate that many of these metonymies are complex, such that the target of one feeds into another, serving as its source, and recursively so. As a result of this, many of these metonymies remain obscured to sight and are not recognized as such. Thirdly, in the final part of our lecture we argue that a number of metonymies are (no longer) recognized as such due to reductions of an excessively structuralist approach to signed languages. This approach, which glosses over the deep (metonymic and metaphorical) motivation, may have adverse effects on the process of teaching/learning signed languages.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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