CURRENT PROJECT:

Title: Researching conceptual metonymy in selected areas of grammar, discourse and sign language with the aid of the University of Córdoba Metonymy Database (PGC2018-101214-B-I00).

Funding agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government.
Participating Universities: Universidad de Córdoba, Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and Universidad Católica de Valencia.
Calendar : From 01-01-2019 to 31-12-2021.
Number of researchers: Six (in main research team). And
First Principal Investigator: Antonio Barcelona
Second Principal Investigator: Carmen Portero Muñoz.

TOTAL AMOUNT OF GRANT: 30.250,00 €.

CV

Antonio Barcelona is Professor Emeritus (01/10/2022) in English Linguistics at the University of Córdoba. Full Professor (2006-2022) at the University of Córdoba, Spain (formerly at University of Murcia, Spain, 1990-2006), he has lectured extensively as an invited speaker on metaphor, metonymy and cognitive linguistics at several universities and conferences in Spain and abroad (Madrid (2000, 2008, 2019), Rosbruck Centre, Kerkrade, Holland (2002), Lodz, Poland (2005), Braga, Portugal (2003), Soria (Fundación Duques de Soria and Real Academia Española de la Lengua, 2003), Stockholm (2008), Dubrovnik (Croatia) 2009, Granada (2004), Las Palmas (2004), Pavia, Italy (2003), Leipzig (2003), Barcelona (2011), Düsseldorf (2015), Zagreb, Croatia (2016)), Lublin, Poland (2019), among others. Author of over a hundred articles and author or editor of several books on these topics. Head researcher in fifteen government-funded research projects on cognitive linguistics and other areas. Founder and first president of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO) and board member of ICLA, the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (1997-2001), Associate Editor of Cognitive Linguistics (2009 and 2011) and of Cognitive Linguistic Studies (since 2013) and member of the Scientific Committee of a dozen other international linguistics journals and book series. Consultant of the European Science Foundation, ANEP and ANECA.

Main publications

Barcelona, Antonio (accepted for publication; expected publication date: 2023/2024). Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension. Five Case Studies (Cognitive Linguistic Research). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Barcelona, Antonio (in press). Metonymy-guided discourse inferencing. A qualitative study. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. Invited paper for the 2023 volume on Cognitive Linguistics. ERIH PLUS. Scopus.

Barcelona, Antonio (in press). Trends in cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy. In: Special Issue on Cognitive Linguistics (eds., Mario Serrano Losado and Daniela Patterson) Cognitive Linguistic Studies. ERIH PLUS

Barcelona, Antonio (under revision; expected publication date: 2023/20242023/24). Purely Inferential Metonymies. Review of Cognitive Linguistics.  Q1 (2021).

Barcelona Antonio (2019). The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database. Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Despot (Eds), Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age (49-73). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  ISBN: 9789027203441/ 9789027262295 (e-book). DOI 10.175/milcc.8 (book) and 10.175/milcc.8.03bar  (chapter).

Blanco-Carrión, Olga; Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (Eds.), 2018. Conceptual Metonymy. Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/hcp.60. ISBN 978 90 272 0038 9 / e-book:  9789027264381.

Barcelona, Antonio (2018a). General description of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project, with particular attention to the issues of hierarchy, prototypicality, and taxonomic domains. In Blanco-Carrión, Olga; Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (Eds.), pp. 27-54. DOI: 10.1075/hcp.60. ISBN: 9789027200389 / e-book:  9789027264381

Barcelona, Antonio (2018b). Metaphor and metonymy in language and art: The dogma of the Holy Trinity and its artistic representation. In: Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska (Eds).  Religion, Language and the Human Mind (353-385). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190636647.

Barcelona, Antonio (2016). Salience in metonymy-motivated constructional abbreviated from with particular attention to English clippings. Cognitive Semantics. 2.1, pp. 30-58. 2016. ISSN: 2352-6408 / E-ISSN: 2352-6416 / http://brill.com/cose.

Benczes, Réka; Barcelona, Antonio; Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (2011). Defining metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics. Towards a Consensus View. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Barcelona, Antonio, Antonio (2011). Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy. In: Réka Benczes; Antonio Barcelona; Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, (Eds.), pp. 7-57, http://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.

Barcelona, Antonio (2010). Metonymic inferencing and second language acquisition. AILA Review. 23: 134 – 154, http://www.benjamins.com.

Panther, Klaus-Uwe; Linda Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona (Eds.) (2009). Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 978-90-272-2379-1

Barcelona, Antonio (2009). Motivation of construction meaning and form. The role of metonymy and inference. In Panther, Thornburg and Barcelona (eds.), pp. 363 - 401.

Barcelona, Antonio (2008). The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of ‘bahuvrihi’ compounds. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 6 (Print). 6-1, pp. 208-281. DOI:10.1075/arcl.6.10bar.

Barcelona, Antonio (2005). The Multilevel Operation of Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse, with Particular Attention to Metonymic Chain. In Ruiz de Mendoza, F. and Peña Cervel, S. (eds.)n(313 – 352). Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction. (Cognitive Linguistics Research.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Barcelona, Antonio (2004). Metonymy behind grammar: The motivation of the seemingly “irregular” grammatical behavior of English paragon names. In Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.) Studies in Linguistic Motivation (357-374).  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Barcelona, Antonio (2000). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads. A Cognitive perspective. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 357 págs. ISBN 3-11-0163039 (Topics in English Linguistics 30).