Event structure as a metonymic target and vehicle in the languages of the deaf

Krzysztof Kosecki

doi:10.18778/8220-051-5

Event structure as a metonymic target and vehicle in the languages of the deaf

Krzysztof Kosecki

Publikacja:

Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice

Serie: Łódzkie Studia z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego i Ogólnego

Strony: 77-88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-051-5.07

Opublikowane: 30 grudnia 2020

Kategorie: Filologie obce, Otwarty dostęp

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The paper addresses the issue of event structure in the languages of the deaf. Basing on cognitive linguistic view of metonymy as a pervasive and multi-dimensional conceptual mechanism (Blank, 1999; Lakoff, 1987; Radden & Kövecses, 1999), it argues that signed languages employ parts of events to access whole events, and that actions, objects, locations and other elements of event structure also provide mental access to such concepts as animals, food, instruments, locations, professions, and sports.