A Study of Parody From Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics:Metonymy,Metaphor and Constructionalization
The cognitive study of parody at the phrase and sentence level(also known as snowclone in English)reveals that it involves metonymy and metaphor synchronically.The activation of original expressions via parodied expressions is the cognitive operation of metonymy,and the understanding of parodied expressions through the mapping of original expressions reflects the cognitive operation of metaphor.In addition,the diachronic study of the evolution of original expressions from the perspective of schematicity,productivity and compositionality shows that original expressions experience a process of lexical construtionalization from micro-construction to subschema.