Conceptual world and the metonymic nature of language
Language is a tool for constructing and representing conceptual systems,and it's also an important tool for expressing conceptual systems.Due to the richness and multimodal nature of conceptual systems,and the linearity and least effort characteristics of language production,language expressions can only capture part of the whole.Therefore,metonymy is a very common phenomenon in language expression.The essence of metonymy is"indirect implication","from here to there",or"from part to whole".In fact,language expression as a whole reflects a characteristic of"triggering",that is,language triggers the"conceptual system".Language expression is based on conceptual systems,and language comprehension relies more on conceptual knowledge and context.
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