2019 International Conference on English Language and Culture (icelc 2019)

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 http://dx.doi.org/10.14500/icelc2019
2019 International Conference on English Language and Culture (ICELC 2019) 
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A Cognitive Analysis of Metaphor and Metonymy in 
Selected Passages from Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories
Suhayla H. Majeed and Lanja A. Dabbagh
Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University, 
Hawler
English Language and Culture Conference | Koya University 
ICELC 2019, Article ID: ICELC. 138, 7 pages 
DOI: 10.14500/icelc2019.dst138 
Received 14 May 2019; Accepted 21 June 2019 
Conference paper: Published 22 February 2020 
Conference track: Discourse Studies 
Corresponding author’s e-mail: [e-mail]/ 
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Copyright © 2019 Suhayla H. Majeed and Lanja A. Dabbagh. This 
is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons 
Attribution License.
Abstract—
Metaphor and metonymy are two main motivating 
aspects for us to perceive ourselves and the abstract outside world. 
The success of metaphor and metonymy in communication may also 
be explained by the fact that they are beyond language, as it is to 
be found primarily in thought and action. In literature, they were 
used to be thought of as merely figures of speech, but in cognitive 
linguistics, both of them are important cognitive instruments 
and way of thinking of human beings. The cognitive linguistics 
approach to metaphor and metonymy provides an explanatorily 
elegant framework to account much for the underlying meaning. 
In this paper, we describe the features and functions of metaphor 
and metonymy in the selected passages of Oscar Wilde’s short 
stories. There is an attempt to show the importance of language