The book elaborates one of the many brilliant ideas of RomanJakobson's, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's two-domain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy developed recently: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that be come possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact. >From the contents:PrefaceRENÉ DIRVENIntroductionSection 1: The metonymic and the metaphoricROMAN JAKOBSONThe metaphoric and metonymic polesRENATE BARTSCHGenerating polysemi: Metaphor and metonymyRENÉ DIRVENMetonymy and metaphor: Different mental strategies of conceptualizationBEATRICE WARRENAn alternative account of the interpretation of referential metonymy and metaphorSection 2: The two-domain approachZOLTAN KÖVECSES, GARY B. PALMER AND RENÉ DIRVENLanguage and emotion: The interplay of conceptualization with physiology and cultureWILLIAM CROFTThe role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymiesANTONIO BARCELONAClarifying and applying the notions of metaphoor and metonymy within cognitive linguistics: An updateKLAUS-UWE PANTHER AND LINDA L. THORNBURGThe roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominalsSection 3: The interaction between metaphor and metonymyJOHN R. TAYLORCategory extension by metonymy and metaphorLOUIS GOOSSENSMetaphtonymy: The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in expressions for linguistic actionNICK RIEMERWhen is metonymy no longer a metonymyGÜNTER RADDENHow metonymic are metaphors?DIRK GEERAERTSThe interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressionsSection : New breakthroughs: blending and primary scenesMARK TURNER AND GILLES FAUCONNIERMetaphor, metonymy, and bindingFRANCISCO JOSÉ RUIZ DE MENDOZA IBÁNEZ AND OLGA ISABEL DIEZ VELASCOPatterns of conceptual interactionJOSEPH GRADY AND CHRISTOPHER JOHNSONConverging evidence for the notions of subscene and primary sceneBRIGITTE NERLICH AND DAVID D. CLARKEBlending the past and the present: Conceptual and linguistic integration, 1800 - 2000Subject indexAuthors index