Open AccessThe Application of Conceptual Metonymy in Discourse Coherence
Author(s) -
Zhengling Fu
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of english language education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2325-0887
DOI - 10.5296/ijele.v4i2.9485
Subject(s) - metonymy , viewpoints , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , linguistics , perspective (graphical) , cognition , action (physics) , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , art , metaphor , mathematics , physics , statistics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , visual arts
The action scenario of speech acts, put forward by Thornburg and Panther (1997) from the perspective of cognition, provides a good rationale for the cognitive function of metonymy. This paper will deal with the important role of metonymy in the generation and interpretation of discourse. The author of this paper is going to try to analyze the explanatory power of metonymy on discourse coherence from these viewpoints.