The article addresses metonymy as a pervasive feature in the style of Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), the first novel by Chicano writer Alejandro Morales (Montebello, CA, 1944). The perspective adopted is the cognitive linguistic approach applied to tropes. It is argued that metonymic thinking structures not only the numerous lexical metonymies present in the text but also activates complex figuration in interaction with metaphor and it is also operative at grammar level. The resulting stylistic and discursive effects are dehumanization, deliberate vagueness, subjectivism, discursive coherence and even euphemism.

Caras viejas y vino nuevo, metonimia del barrio

Errico Elena
2022-01-01

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The article addresses metonymy as a pervasive feature in the style of Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), the first novel by Chicano writer Alejandro Morales (Montebello, CA, 1944). The perspective adopted is the cognitive linguistic approach applied to tropes. It is argued that metonymic thinking structures not only the numerous lexical metonymies present in the text but also activates complex figuration in interaction with metaphor and it is also operative at grammar level. The resulting stylistic and discursive effects are dehumanization, deliberate vagueness, subjectivism, discursive coherence and even euphemism.
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