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1、MetonymyasaprototypicalcategoryYVESPEIRSMANandDIRKGEERAERTS*AbstractAdefinitionofmetonymythathasgainedsomepopularityinCognitiveLin-guisticscontrastsmetonymicalsemanticshiftswithinadomainordomainmatrixwithmetaphoricalshiftsthatcrossdomainboundaries.Inthepastfewyears,however,this
2、definitionofmetonymyhasbecomesubjecttomoreandmorecriticism,inthesensethatitreliestoomuchonthevaguenotionsofdomainsordomainmatricestobefullyreliable.Inthisarticle,weaddressthisproblembyfocusingonanonunitary,prototypicaldefinitionofcontiguity(theconceptthatusedtobeseenasthedefining
3、featureofmetonymybeforeCognitiveLinguisticsintroduceddomainsanddomainmatrices).Onthebasisofthetraditionalpre-structuralistliteratureonmetonymy,weidentifyalargenumberoftypicalmetonymicalpatterns,andshowthattheycanbeclassifiedintermsofthetypeofcontiguitytheyaremotivatedby.Weargue
4、thatmetonymies,startingfromspatialpart-wholecontiguityasthecoreofthecategory,canbeplottedagainstthreedimensions:strengthofcontact(goingfrompart-wholecontainmentoverphysicalcontacttoadjacencywithoutcontact),boundedness(involvinganextensionofthepart-wholerelationshiptowardsunbou
5、ndedwholesandparts),anddomain(withshiftsfromthespatialtothetemporal,thespatio-temporalandthecategorialdomain).Keywords:metonymy;prototypicality.IntroductionThediscussionofmetonymyinthecontextofCognitiveLinguisticshassofarconcentratedonadefinitionofmetonymyasashiftofmeaningwithi
6、nonedomainordomainmatrix(Ko¨vecses2002:145).Itisgradu-allybecomingclear,however,thatthisdefinitionreliestoomuchontheCognitiveLinguistics17–3(2006),269–3160936–5907/06/0017–0269DOI10.1515/COG.2006.0076WalterdeGruyter270Y.PeirsmanandD.Geeraertsvaguenotionof‘‘domain(matrix)’’tobef
7、ullyoperational;seeTaylor(2002)orRuizdeMendozaandOtalCampo(2002)amonganumberofcriticalvoices.Variouslinguists(amongthemCroftandCruse2004;Feyaerts1999;Riemer2001)nowsuggestthatitislessthanstraightfor-wardtouseidentityversusdi¤erencebetweenthesemanticdomainsin-volvedasabasisfort
8、hedi¤erentiationofmetaphorandmetonymy.Atthesametime,however,a
