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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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Investigating Metonymic Expressions in Communication [PDF]
, 2016 This paper was written as a result of an investigation concerning one of phenomena in language use, which is specifically related to metonymic expressions used by lecturers at one of universities in Bogor.
Shabir, M.
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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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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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Strange bedfellows: Non-metonymic English proper names and the indefinite article [PDF]
, 2021 The paper explores the use of the indefinite article with English proper names that are non-metonymic, e.g. an angry Clinton, an independent Poland, etc. In contrast to indefinite proper name uses that metonymically stand for works of art or qualities of
Berezowski, Leszek
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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 Dominance of Metonymic Narrative in Contemporary Georgian Postmodern Poetry
, 2023 Metaphorical artistic forms are replaced by metonymic artistic forms in current literary texts. The axis of paradigmatic thinking is replaced by the syntagmatic one, the metaphorical poetic style turns into a metonymic prose style. In poetry,
Gogiashvili, Nino, Nino Gogiashvili
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 414-424, September 2026.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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Anaphoric pronouns of metonymic expressions
, 2004 One peculiarity of referential metonymy is that metonymic subjects and their predicates need not agree as to number. Nor need there be gender agreement between metonymic expressions and anaphoric pronouns. In this respect metonymies differ from metaphors.
Warren, Beatrice
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