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Metonymic relations : from determinacy to indeterminacy
, 2020 The paper offers an account of metonymy along relevance-theoretic lines and discusses some stylistic effects which may be provided by metonymic expressions. We treat metonymically communicated concepts as part of the inferentially established proposition
Piskorska, Agnieszka +3 more
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What Metaphors Do Sneaky: Discourse and Subject
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007 I have set myself the task of taking some contributions of FOUCAULT’s thinking and linking them to ideas of latter theorists (who undoubtedly have been familiar with his philosophy) in order to put forward a method of social research based on a ...
José Antonio Román Brugnoli
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 481-489, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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METONYMIC CHAINS AND SYNONYMY [PDF]
, 2015 U radu se polazi od pitanja univerzalnosti konceptualnih metonimija tipa MJESTO ZA USTANOVU. Na primjeru dva podtipa te metonimije, GLAVNI GRAD UMJESTO VLADE te ZEMLJA UMJESTO VLADE, upućuje se na neke probleme u vezi s granularnošću korpusne ...
Mario Brdar, Brdar, Mario
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 738-752, Autumn (Fall) 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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Searching for the beasts in the archive as methodological praxis
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.This article offers searching for the beasts in the archive as a methodological tool available to researchers invested in both anticolonialism and antianthropocentrism. By focusing on three basic units of reference—categories, histories, and borders—the article shows how searching for the beasts unsettles some taken‐for‐granted assumptions that ...
Senel Wanniarachchi
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization [PDF]
, 2013 Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g.,The writer began the novel), triggering a covert event interpretation (e.g., reading, writing).
LENCI, ALESSANDRO +3 more
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines what becomes possible for interpretive literacy research when time is treated not as a neutral backdrop but as a central problematic. We argue that research does not merely trace temporal sequences; it actively creates temporalities that shape what becomes sensible, thinkable, and sayable within literacy studies.
Gail Boldt, Kevin Leander
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