SEMANTICS ARTICLE REVIEW

ARTICLE REVIEW

 INTERPRETING SEMANTIC EXTENSION: METAPHOR AND METONYMY ON DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LEXICAL CATEGORIZATION

NICK RIEMER Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University

nick.riemer@anu.edu.au

Nick Riemer has defined the concept of using categories ”Metaphor and Metonymy on Different Levels of Lexical Categorization”. explain the relationship between the meaning of the polysemous lexeme metaphor in 1980, and metonymy in 1999. Metaphor, 'is a cognitive mechanism whereby one domain experience partial "mapped", ie projected, to a different domain experience that second domain is partially understood in terms of the first' , Metonymy, on the contrary, 'is a conceptual projection in which one domain of experience (target) is partially understood in terms of domain experience of the other (source) included in the same domain common experience' (Barcelona 2000: 4; oblique original).

In the first part of this article, Nick Riemer presented conception of "Methapor and Methonimi." Obviously that Methaphor used as a model for other concepts that are not related to (target), 'the baby has a cold'. And methonimi used as a model for others and there is no relationship or similarity mapping is established between the vehicle and the target "Having come they sat down, they danced out in the open."

Furthermore, Nick Riemer problem of spurious sense division Analysis based on metaphor and metonymy has become increasingly common in discussions of lexical semantics, but it faces a challenge because of the distinction on which it depends between ‘core’ and ‘extended’ senses.  There are two cases in particular where reluctance to recognize ‘separate’ meanings might be appropriate  First, the so-called ‘actual-potential’ polysemies like ‘hit’ and ‘kill’, which are widespread and culturally entrenched in Australian languages (O’Grady 1960; Dixon 1980: 103).

On the second and last of this writing, Nick Riemer expanded variety of definitions of "Metaphor and Metonymy on Different Levels of Lexical Categorization" he discusses the meaning of difference and referent typicality The claim of this paper is that metaphor and metonymy retain significant explanatory usefulness in spite of the restriction of Reviews their applicability to metalanguage glosses. discuss where the differences between each of meaning. While his analysis largely tasty, heedless of the general sense of Metaphor and Metonymy on Different Levels of Lexical Categorization. Throughout the article, he never explained the meaning of the meaning of words such as 'The woman is hitting the dog with a stick.', 'The baby has a cold'. Is this a deliberate omission or careless oversight is not clear, but it weakens the definition of Nick Riemer, because the meaning is not easy to understand and does not give a preemptive response to the argument. Nevertheless, the work of Nick Riemer still provide a clue to the meaning of the word.

http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2001/riemer.pdf