Metonymy as a universal cognitive phenomenon: evidence from multilingual lexicons
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- dc.contributor.author Khishigsuren, Temuulen
- dc.contributor.author Bella, Gábor
- dc.contributor.author Brochhagen, Thomas
- dc.contributor.author Marav, Daariimaa
- dc.contributor.author Giunchiglia, Fausto
- dc.contributor.author Batsuren, Khuyagbaatar
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-14T07:16:41Z
- dc.date.available 2023-03-14T07:16:41Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract Metonymy is regarded as a universally shared cognitive phenomenon; as such, humans are taken to effortlessly produce and comprehend metonymic senses. However, experimental studies on metonymy have been focused on Western societies, and the linguistic data backing up claims of universality has not been large enough to provide conclusive evidence. We introduce a large-scale analysis of metonymy based on a lexical corpus of 20 thousand metonymy instances from 189 languages and 69 genera. No prior study, to our knowledge, is based on linguistic coverage as broad as ours. Drawing on corpus and statistical analysis, evidence of universality is found at three levels: systematic metonymy in general, particular metonymy patterns, and specific metonymy concepts. These findings imply that a shared conceptual structure for these patterns and concepts holds across societies.
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- dc.identifier.citation Khishigsuren T, Bella G, Brochhagen T, Marav D, Giunchiglia F, Batsuren K. Metonymy as a universal cognitive phenomenon: evidence from multilingual lexicons. Proc Annu Conf Cogn Sci Soc. 2022;44:2386-93.
- dc.identifier.issn 1069-7977
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56219
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Cognitive Science Society
- dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 2022;44:2386-93.
- dc.relation.isreferencedby https://github.com/kbatsuren/UniMet
- dc.rights ©2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
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- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword metonymy
- dc.subject.keyword lexical semantics
- dc.subject.keyword universals
- dc.subject.keyword multilingual lexical resources
- dc.subject.keyword conceptual structure
- dc.title Metonymy as a universal cognitive phenomenon: evidence from multilingual lexicons
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