INSIDE OUT OF A TRAVEL BLOG: THE ROLE OF METONYMY THROUGH THE ASPECT PART-FOR-PART IN TEXT GENRE TRAVEL BLOG

Abstract

This paper discusses travel blogs as informative textual genres that convey to the reader a range of attitudes, feelings, impressions, and actions of the author in the author's own words. The analysis of travel blogs as a text genre offers insight into the schema and structure of texts that reproduce tourist experiences by reconstructing their stories for their readers. The study presents a brief text linguistic analysis of 10 travel blogs classified into the text type Assertive, sub-type Informative. As an introduction to the schema and structure of travel blogs, a very brief analysis is conducted at the communicativepragmatic and thematic levels. The main aim of this research is to identify and investigate the role of metonymy in the textual genre of travel blogs. The analysis of the examples is based on the definitions of contemporary cognitive linguistics research. The examples of metonymy were extracted from the selected corpus of 10 travel blogs in English about the travel destination Dubrovnik (https://alittleadrift.com) and the metonymic situation part -for-part metonymy in the action domain- tense for a particular action was analyzed and described by the following occurrences: a) Present perfect for a perfective action; b) Present simple for a factual state; c) Past simple for a completed action. The results show that predicative adjectives in travel blogs perform the function of a predicate or relative clause. Metonymy Part-for-part relations in the tense system lead to conventionalized use of tenses. The metonymic use of tenses in the travel blog text genre is based on conventions, syntagms and lexical units used in tourism communication. The role of metonymy in the cases described was to activate the aspect of an action represented by predicates, thus enabling a more accurate understanding of the actions described in the travel blogs.