%0 Journal Article
%T The pragmatic implications of metonymical body-based idioms in Jordanian Arabic
%A Al-Adaileh
%A Bilal A.
%A Abbadi
%A Renad
%J Argumentum
%D 2012
%I Debrecen University Press
%X We report a study of the metonymical idioms that incorporate body parts, exploring the role that body parts have in motivating different aspects of metonymical meaning in Jordanian Arabic. The study discusses a number of metonymy-based idioms that include lexis for parts of the body, showing that such idioms underlie and help structure our understanding of concepts and experiences in the world. The conceptual ¡°intra-domain¡± mapping examined in this study underlies Jordanian people¡¯s use and understanding of conventional idioms such as red-haired, blue-eyed, long-necked, strong-backed, broken-backed, thin-skinned, long-handed, etc. The paper demonstrates how rich the human body is in terms of being a source domain for metonymies. Also, all the conventional idioms reported in this study are to be viewed as clear-cut examples of metonymies, as used in Jordanian Arabic.
%K idioms
%K metonymies
%K implicatures
%K explicatures
%K mapping
%K body parts
%U http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2012-anyagok/adaileh.pdf