The lexical frame of color as a primary experience is often used to exemplify linguistic theories and yet there is still lack of a cognitive color model. Cognitive linguistics establishes a central role to meaning through the ideas of embodied experience and cognitive models that are evinced through usage-based analysis. I present the fifth type of distinction in a conceptual mapping of color; four types have been presented in Sandford 2010, 2011a,b. The new part of this mapping is Conceptual Color Metonymy as surmised from 100 random examples of each of the six basic color terms extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy mapping reveals primary conceptual correlations in experience. The predominant conceptualization mechanism pattern that emerged from this study is COLOR ATTRIBUTE (IS ACCESS) FOR CONCEPTUAL SPACE.
Her blue eyes are red. An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English.
SANDFORD, Jodi Louise
2014
Abstract
The lexical frame of color as a primary experience is often used to exemplify linguistic theories and yet there is still lack of a cognitive color model. Cognitive linguistics establishes a central role to meaning through the ideas of embodied experience and cognitive models that are evinced through usage-based analysis. I present the fifth type of distinction in a conceptual mapping of color; four types have been presented in Sandford 2010, 2011a,b. The new part of this mapping is Conceptual Color Metonymy as surmised from 100 random examples of each of the six basic color terms extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy mapping reveals primary conceptual correlations in experience. The predominant conceptualization mechanism pattern that emerged from this study is COLOR ATTRIBUTE (IS ACCESS) FOR CONCEPTUAL SPACE.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
