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Lexical facets and metonymy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article compares two accounts of the type of meaning alternation exhibited by book (“physical object”, as in a dusty book, and “abstract text”, as in a well-written book). The first account is Nunberg’s “dense metonymy” approach (Nunberg, 1995); the
Cruse, D. Alan
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Toward a Unified Account of Metonymy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, metonymy is a conceptual operation in which one entity maps onto the other entity within a single domain at the conceptual level.
Sato, Ayako
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On Psychological Function of Metonymy in the Language of Fiction

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 2013
The article discusses the metonymy as a special technique of creative thinking. The authors suggest accentuating the psychological functions of the metonymy in addition to the lexical-semantic and stylistic functions on the basis of the analysis of the ...
A L Novikov, M A Rybakov
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Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy [PDF]

open access: yes
Metonymy has traditionally been studied as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon closely linked to metaphor. Nevertheless, the connection between metaphor and metonymy requires further exploration.
Johansson Falck, Marlene   +1 more
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How different rhetorical figures in Chinese advertising copy affect mental imagery, emotional responses, and memory

open access: yesActa Psychologica
This study explores the effect of two different rhetorical tropes, metaphor and metonymy, on mental imagery, pleasure, and memory in Chinese advertising copy.
Lan Wang, Kevin Wise
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