Investigating Conceptual Metonymies in Iraqi Arabic Asst. Lect. Hassan Wyrawish Marai

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the types of metonymies encountered in Iraqi Arabic in accordance with the cognitive theory of linguistics. Besides, it also seeks to explore the functions of those types as well, drawing on the data at hand. Ideally, all informants were involved in natural conversations, but individually. The conversations were being recorded and then decontextualized into written forms. Yet, the selected utterances are randomly taken from various lengthy conversations and are analyzed according to an eclectic model. The study has shown that the types of conceptual metonymy are alike in English as well as in Iraqi Arabic and that they have exhibited multifunctional purposes.

Keywords: Conceptual Metonymy, Cross-Functional, Illocutionary, Tóth (2018), Panther and Thornburg (2007), Predicational, Property-Metonymy, Propositional, Referential.