_转喻_指称的认知语用阐释.pdf

2008 2 2008, No. 2 14 1 FORE IGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH SerialNo. 141 * 陈新仁 (国家 985工程 汉语言文学与民族认同哲学社会创新基地, 南京大学, 南京 210093) : , , (), , , , , , , , ; , , , , : ; ; ; : H 030 : A : 1000- 0100( 2008) 02- 0084- 6 A P ragm aticCogn itive A pproach to M etonym ic R eference Chen X inren ( N anjing Univer ity, N anj ing 2 10093, Ch ina) M etonym y ha trad itionally been con idered a rhetorical dev ice. W ith the r i e of cogn itive em antic , there ha ar i en the challeng e to the rhetorical v iew of the lingu i tic phenom enon, argu ing that it involve the am e kind of in ference a found in the comprehen ion of daily u e of languag e. Th i paper, wh ile endor ing the cogn itive em an tic analy i of the inferen tial proce e and m echan im underly ing m etonym y, den ie the total rejection of it rhetor icalm otivation and effect and intend to m od ify the trad itional conception of m etonymy a a figure of peech that eem over mi p lified and explanator ily inadequate. To the e end , the paper argue thatm etonym ic u age be exam ined w ith in the overall fram ework of reference and analyzed in the ligh t of cognitiv e pragm atic . A pragm aticcogn itive v iew of rhetoricw ill be introduced to di cu the u e ofm etonym y in var iou dynam ic contex t o a to reveal it var ied m otivation and pr inciple of com prehen ion. T hi re earch w ill attempt to how that cognitive em antic and pragm atic are ba ically comp lem entary to each other and that other trad itional rhetorical dev ice can al o be thu tud ied. K ey w ord s: reference; metonym y;