Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 14، number In Volume 6، September 2021 ، issue Number 64

Cognitive_Critical Analysis of Metonymy in Malk Alshoara Bahar’s Poems

Hossein Mohammad Sadeghi , Zahra Babasalari (Author in Charge), Maryam Parhizkari , Naghmeh Hosseini

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The present article is going to make a survey on methonemy in Bahar’s Poems based on Littlemore’s (2015) point of view. From this cognitive model, 12 functions are mentioned for metonymy: 1. Referential; 2. Highlighting and construal; 3. Illocutionary functions of metonymy; 4. Relationship; 5. Anaphoric reference, cohesion and coherence; 6. Exophoric reference building and the establishment of discourse communities; 7. euphemism; 8. Hyperbole; 9. irony; 10. Vagueness; 11. Evaluation, ideology, and positioning; 12.Creativity

METHODOLOGY: This study has been done based on critical_discreptive method. In this study, all methonymy’s functions are surveyed in Bahar’s Poems and then calculated, in order to identify which conceptual methonomy with how much frequency has been used.

FINDINGS: The result showed that the poet has been used all 12 metonymies in his poems with different percentage.

CONCLUSION: We found three most used roles “referential functions, highlighting and construal, illocutionary functions” and the least used one with the least frequency “relationship-building and the establishment of discourse communities”. The other finding showed that these methonymies are used for transferring poet’s messages like patriotic value and religious ideas, for different group of addressees.

Keyword
Cognitive linguistics , Cognitive Semantics , Metonymy , Malk Alshoara Bahar , Poem

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