La saturazione dei concetti: un criterio per distinguere la metafora dalla metonimia

(The Saturation of Concepts: a Criterion for Distinguishing between Metaphors and Metonimies)

Authors

  • Michele Prandi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2038-6788/8915

Keywords:

Saturated and Unsaturated Concepts, Conceptual Conflict, Metaphor, Metonymy, Saturation, Transfer

Abstract

This essay discusses how the distinction between saturated and unsaturated concepts is of great help in view of a sharp distinction between metaphor and metonymy. Metonymy connects heterogeneous concepts, whereas metaphor transfers concepts into strange domains. Whereas connection requires saturated terms, transfer is compatible with both saturated and unsaturated concepts. This accounts for both the distributional restrictions on metonymy and the ubiquity of metaphor in sentence structure.

Published

2012-11-13

Issue

Section

Theory