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The Role of Metonymy in Motivating Cross-Linguistic Differences in the Exploitation of Stand-Alone Conditionals as Indirect Directives

The metonymic motivation of indirect speech acts has received increased attention in recent cognitive linguistic literature (cf. Panther & Thornburg 1998, 1999 and 2003, Pérez Hernández & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibá&ntilde ; ; ez 2002, Radden & Seto 2003, Stefanowitsch 2003 and Brdar/Brdar & Szabó 2002 and 2004). In accord with other researchers in the field I am well aware of the fact that metonymy alone does not the whole job of motivating this phenomenon and that it is of equal importance to reveal the role of other conceptual processes such as metaphor and blending as well as to demonstrate their interaction with metonymy. At the same time I think it is a legitimate task to document once in a while in a detailed study the role of one of these processes. The present paper is part of a larger project concerned with cross-linguistic study of the exploitation of illocutionary metonymy in indirect speech acts on the example of indirect directives in English, German, Hungarian and Croatian

metonymy; indirect directives; speech acts; contrastive linguistics

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