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Is a metonymy always a metonymy? A speculation on taxonomical aspects of propositional metonymy and situational metonymy [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2019
Research efforts in cognitive linguistics are frequently focused on the notion of metaphor, while the notion of metonymy, as well as its taxonomical aspects, is not always thoroughly researched.
Golovko Nikolay
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Neorealism, Contingency and the Linguistic Turn

Humanities, 2019
Since the publication of Roman Jakobson’s famous 1956 essay “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances”, we have tended to read the relationship between metaphor and metonymy as a dialectical one.
Thomas Claviez
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Analyzing Sense Relations and some Figures of Speech in the Poetry of Melayê Cizîrî

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This article investigates the semantic fabric of Melayê Cizîrî’s mystical poetry through the lens of sense relations, with particular focus on metaphor and metonymy as dominant figures of speech. Using qualitative semantic analysis of selected bilingual
Vager Ozair Ibrahim, Suhayla Hameed Majeed   +1 more
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The Extraordinary and the Ordinary: The Possibilities and Problems of Eberhard Jüngel’s Hermeneutics

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 66-81, January 2026.
Abstract Eberhard Jüngel insists on the absolute transcendence of God and on human language as the vehicle for that transcendence. In doing so, he makes claims both about the power of language and the limits of humanity in relation to language. In exploring this tension, the essay will examine whether Jüngel successfully navigates the tension between ...
Deborah Casewell
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Looking Awry at Language: A Brief Overview of Paradox from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics [PDF]

Literary Arts
The present study investigates paradox as a cognitive phenomenon within the framework of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, challenging its conventional classification as a rhetorical device.
Raziyeh Hojatizadeh
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Food and Relatedness From Past to Present in the Arbëreshë Community of Molise. The Evolving Power of Food Gifts as Binding Agents After 1960s Industrialization

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article investigates how the changing value of food due to the transition from famine to abundance after industrialization in the 1960s generated a shift in sociality and ways of being together in the Arbëreshë community, who immigrated to Molise during the sixteenth century.
Elisa Pastorelli
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Metaphor and Metonymy

, 1998
Даний документ спрямований на вивчення таких постатей як метафора та метонімія. Метафора та метонімія використовуються для того, щоб зробити письмово більш яскравим, творчим, змістовним. The present paper is aimed at investigating such figures of speech as metaphor and metonymy.
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Meaning construction in the Brexit process

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2020
The aim of this study to shed some light on the way meaning is constructed in different stages in the Brexit process through some covers of The Economist magazine. The present paper lies within the scope of the research into the instantiation of metaphor,
María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos, Tamara Hernández Aparicio   +1 more
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