Contents                                      

1. Introduction 1                

2. Literature Review 1                       

2.1 Development of Metonymy Studies 1                  

2.2 Definition of Embodied Cognition 2                   

3. Metonymy as Cognitive Instruments 3                     

3.1 The Cognitive View of Metonymy 3                  

3.2 Metonymic Mapping 5                   

3.3 Metonymic Thinking in Experiences 8                 

4. Embodied Cognition in Metonymy 9                  

4.1 Physiological Metonymies and Sentiments 9             

4.2 The Metonymic Background of Speech Acts 11                   

4.3 Embodied Cognition Governing the Meonymy 12              

5. Conclusion 16               

Works Cited 17               

1. Introduction                                                              

Metonymy is considered as a type of figure of speech in a traditional way, i.e. as a decorative device employed in rhetorical manner more or less. Today, metonymy was still prevailingly seen as a matter of language, namely, it was basically seen as a figure of speech, especially figurative or literary one. For the sake of analyzing traditional rhetoric and metonymic relationships, we need to analyze metonymy with conceptual notions, for instance, ‘container-contents’, ‘cause-effect’, etc. Classic definitions manifest this viewpoint of metonymy and they tend to explain metonymy as “a figure of speech that consists in using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated” (Webster’s, 2002). Definitions like these involve the replacement of the title of one thing for another thing and the way how the two things are connected.