The Study on Metaphor and Metonymy of Hand

Abstract

Hyun Jung Ahn․Yeon Jin Kwon (2007), A Study on Metaphor and Metonymy of Hand. Journal of Language Sciences 14-2, 195～215. Metaphorical and metonymical expressions of body-part terms have been understood in light of cognitive linguistics. From the cognitive linguistics on the conceptual metaphors and metonymy, studies on body-part terms have proliferated. Especially, We tried to examine the body-part term, hand, because there are relatively lots of idiomatic expressions and studies. However, since the studies on hand have focused primarily on the most common idiomatic expressions, they have been somewhat limited in their scope, and are unable to account for almost all kinds of idiomatic expressions. Therefore we suggest that the addition of new standpoints for metaphors and metonymy of hand be necessary to account for the wealth of expressions that cannot be understood solely on the basis of previous approaches. In metaphor of hand, orientational metaphor and structural mataphor have been added to the previous standpoint. Also, in metonymical expressions of hand, a few of standards of metonymy of hand have included. A variety of newly added idiomatic standpoints of metaphor and metonymy of hand would be helpful to understand many expressions of hand. (Pusan National University)