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2 - The Metaphoric and Metonymic Conceptualisation of the Other

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Zoltán Kövecses  and
John Douthwaite
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Kövecses offers a cognitive exploration of the concept of the (not necessarily criminal) Other, approached from a metaphorical and metonymic angle. He argues that our human way of categorisation, in particular the ’internal-subject’ versus ’external-other’ relationship, is at its core a metaphorical way of perceiving the Other in conceptual categories. Douthwaite analyses a short story to show the application of the concepts identified by Kövecses apply concretely to crime and to crime-related texts.

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conceptual metaphorothernesscategorisationmetonomy
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 16 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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