Darun Abdulrahman Salih
Abstract
Cognitive linguistics is one of the latest scientific studies in the field of applied linguistics, which attaches great importance to mental and intellectual aspects and cognitive abilities ...
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Cognitive linguistics is one of the latest scientific studies in the field of applied linguistics, which attaches great importance to mental and intellectual aspects and cognitive abilities in the analytical processes of language utilizing modern and scientific standards. The concept of (metonymy) is one of the linguistic domains that has strong relationships with the perceptual abilities that include the five senses: sight (vision), hearing (auditory), smell (olfactory), taste (gustatory), touch (tactile). A speaker can feel the impact of these senses in his/her experiences and verbal skills, which are also recurrently used by other language users in the society.This study, entitled Metonymy from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics, It is an attempt to analyze and interpret the concept of (metonymy) through the perceptual abilities represented by the five senses, in connection with the theory of the (semantic network), which is one of the important semantic perceptual topics that examine the semantics of linguistic words. So the research is a scientific attempt to understand and analyze the metonymy based on the five senses and interconnected with the semantic network theory, which we have taken as a means and an approach to analyze the real and figurative meanings of the words contained in the sentences and phrases.
