TY - JOUR N2 - Cognitive Linguistics provides theoretical and methodological framework for a description of conceptual structure of signed languages. Articulation parameters of individual signs, such as hand-shape, location, motion, and orientation, all contribute to the creation of complex non-literal meanings. Being based on metaphors, metonymies, or metonymies-in-metaphor, the signs reflect various degrees of visual motivation or iconicity. American Sign Language (henceforth ASL) and British Sign Language (henceforth BSL), two unrelated languages, employ diverse strategies of conceptualisation to express the same concepts. These strategies range from identical, e.g. metaphor vs. metaphor, to different, e.g. metaphor vs. metonymy, with many intermediate configurations possible. The paper compares selected ASL and BSL signs related to various areas of experience. Some of the signs are also contrasted with their counterparts in other signed languages. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118307/PDF-MASTER/08_Kosecki.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118307 PY - 2014 EP - 172 A1 - Kosecki, Krzysztof PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 35 DA - 2014 T1 - Metaphors and metonymies in American and British signed languages: a contrastive cognitive perspective SP - 153 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/118307 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -