La hipálage: estudio lingüístico con especial atención a las obras de Juan Ramón Jiménez y Rafael Alberti

Abstract

The aim of this research is a linguistic study of hypallage. Here, we’ll concentrate upon four essential aspects: definition of hypallage, delimitation of its area with regard to other rhetoric figures (metaphor and metonymy), semantic function of hypallage in the poetic discourse and the linguistic criteria that can be used to classify its different categories. We don’t agree here with the traditional perspective that analyses hypallage as a result of a permutation process. There is a category of hypallage where it is impossible to perceive any kind of permutation process. In this type of hypallage we can establish a certain relation between this figure and metaphor. The basic function of hypallage in poetic discourse is to enact a psycho-linguistic relation between the implied terms. The typology of hypallage we try to establish in this issue is based upon three essential criteria: the number of implied elements, the type of the semantic anomaly created by hypallage and the linguistic process that produce hypallage.