Variation in Chromatic Part-Part Metonymies in Spanish and English

A Contrastive Study

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Cognitive linguistics, conceptual metonymy, variation, color

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the variation of PART FOR PART metonymies that present color domain as source in Spanish and English in order to determine the similarities and differences that they exhibit according to three criteria: (i) the degree of conceptual elaboration, (ii) the existence of common and particular metonymic projections of the two languages under analysis, and (iii) the degree of linguistic conventionality they present. The study reveals that there are similarities among Spanish and English in relation to the behavior of metonymic projections at a basic-level of hierarchy and that the differences occur in metonymies belonging to low-levels of hierarchy.

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Almudena Soto Nieto, Universidad Católica de Valencia

Departamento de Lengua y Literatura

Doctora en Filología 

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2024-01-09

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Soto Nieto, A. (2024). Variation in Chromatic Part-Part Metonymies in Spanish and English: A Contrastive Study. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 56(113). Retrieved from https://revistasignos.cl/index.php/signos/article/view/881

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Vol. 56 No. 113 (2023): December

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