Metaphor and Metonymy, or the Story of Cinderella. Part II
The cognitive linguistics interpretation of the metonymy has undergone stages from recognizing it as a standard cognitive act close to metaphor through involvement into the toolkit of categorization of the reality and explication as a universal constructive element of gnosiological gestalt to ranking as the primary, compared to metaphor, lingua-cognitive structure. Thus, a double metamorphosis has occurred. Tropes have moved from verbal decorations into mental operations; inside the ensemble of tropes such traditionally peripheral phenomenon as metonymy has been interpreted as the central one. The metonymical turn relies on a range of philosophical prerequisites, correlates with the results obtained irrespective of cognitive linguistics in the structuralist programme of general rhetorics of Groupe μ and semantics of U. Eco and can be considered as a phenomenon which character and meaning are beyond the boundaries of the science area it developed in.