Metonymy in conceptualization of some external body parts in Spanish: the cases of cara, cabeza, boca and mano
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This article presents a corpus-based study of some of the main conceptualizations of the external body parts cara, cabeza, boca and mano, and their linguistic manifestation in Spanish. The aim is, on the one hand, to present some of the different concepts associated with these words and, on the other hand, to describe the important role played by conceptual metonymy in their motivation. Three different criteria have been applied in the description of metonymies: that of hierarchization, the relationship between metonymy and metaphor, and the relationship with other metonymies (Barcelona, 2011; Blanco-Carrión et al., 2018). The latter allow us to differentiate processes in which metonymy intervenes exclusively or in interactions with other metonymic (metonymic chains) and/or metaphoric projections. The results reveal the target domains toward which these different body parts are projected, among which those related to their functionality and activity.
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