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The Metonymic Readings of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics: A Cognitive Approach

Version 1 : Received: 25 July 2019 / Approved: 27 July 2019 / Online: 27 July 2019 (00:51:33 CEST)

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Tsaroucha, E. The Metonymicity of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics. Philosophies 2019, 4, 51. Tsaroucha, E. The Metonymicity of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics. Philosophies 2019, 4, 51.

Abstract

This paper discusses the metonymic uses of the greek deictic adverbs εδώ [here] and εκεί [there] in the language of politics. The paper draws examples from political speeches which taken place in the Hellenic Parliament during 2011 and discussed the financial situation of Greece during that time. The paper discusses the multiple senses of these deictic adverbs and suggests that the temporal and spatial denotations of εδώ and εκεί are subject to image schemas. It is argued that the image schemas in which εδώ and εκεί are rooted have a metonymic basis. The paper also suggests that the spatio-temporal senses of εδώ and εκεί go beyond their deictic function due to their metonymic basis.

Keywords

politics; political speech; economic crisis; Greece; deictics; space; time; image schemas; metonymicity

Subject

Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics

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