Review of Goatly (2024): Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

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Derived lexical items are more likely to be figurative than their bases, with derivation concealing figurative sources and lexicalization being filtered by cultural relevance. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Hua Shao

doi:10.1075/msw.26009.sha

August 20, 2026Metaphor and the Social WorldOpen Access

Review of Goatly (2024): Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

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To review and evaluate Andrew Goatly's theoretical framework connecting figurative language—specifically metaphor and metonymy—to lexicogenesis and cultural lexicalization.
Theoretical synthesis and chapter-by-chapter review of Goatly's ten-chapter volume on cognitive linguistics and word formation.
Evaluation of conceptual frameworks, including revisions to Conceptual Metaphor Theory, frame-schema contiguity models, and cross-cultural experiential evidence.
Derived lexical items exhibit higher figurativeness than their base forms and systematically obscure their figurative sources across distinct cognitive processing routes.
Metaphoricity is classified across four distinct clines—approximation, contradictoriness, explicitness, and conventionality—while metonymy is modeled along frame-schema contiguity clines.
Lexicalization functions as a culturally filtered phenomenon governed by community-specific discourse and action genres.

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Critical review examines how metaphor and metonymy drive lexicalization across linguistic frameworks, highlighting the cultural and cognitive mechanisms of word creation.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aad417677a34114445722 https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.26009.sha

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