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The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin–English bilinguals’ minds. It also explored the neural correlations between metaphor and metonymy computations.
Chia-Hsin Yin, Fan-Pei Gloria Yang
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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionMetonymy has gained increasing attention for its role in shaping language, thought, and communication. Despite its prominence, the thematic evolution and future directions of metonymy research remain underexplored. This study seeks to address
Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin
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Many hands on this study: Development of a metonymy comprehension task [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2023 Metonymy is a pervasive linguistic/cognitive mechanism in everyday language. Still, studies assessing its comprehension are rare in the literature. Our goal is to present the elaboration of a verbal metonymy comprehension task in Brazilian Portuguese as ...
Maity Siqueira +5 more
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A new approach to classification of Metonymy and figurative images [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2012 Before producing speech, human beings create an image of the concept of what is to be said in their minds. A host of these conceptions form ideas in our minds but the image and concept are prior to these ideas and it is through reviewing, simile ...
قهرمان شیری
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Poetic Metonymy As a Type of Lexical Meaning and Its Reflection in Lexicographic Practice
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018 The paper develops the theory of metonymy in the Russian language, and for the first time in Russian linguistics it is proposed to distinguish the actual and event metonymy.
Arkadiy L. Golovanevskiy
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SOURCE-IN-TARGET METONYMY AND TARGET-IN-SOURCE METONYMY IN TEXTS ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2019 The paper deals with the way source-in-target metonymy and target-insource metonymy are used in text on international affairs. In such texts, the notion in the source domain is typically a toponym, but there are cases in which the source can be an ...
Aleksandra Aleksandrova
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Cognitive Principles in Metonymic Headlines
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2017 The article focuses on metonymy as a linguistic device. Traditionally metonymy is considered within the domain of stylistics. However, methods of cognitive linguistics help to penetrate into the essence of language phenomena and explain their nature as ...
Elena S. Milkevich
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Metonymy as a Pragma-Rhetorical Feature in some Speeches of Imam Ali
آداب الكوفة, 2017 The speech of Prophet Mohammad and his progeny (P.B.U.T) is regarded a main source for several sciences such as rhetoric and eloquence. Their speeches are expected to be an adequate corpus of analysis in the light of modern linguistic theories. As such,
Fareed Hameed d Al-Hindawi +1 more
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Cognitive Principles in the Basis of Default Metonymy
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016 The article studies metonymy in English. Traditionally metonymy is understood as a stylistic device. This, however, does not explain the cases of everyday or ‘default’ metonymy, such as ‘to go to the blackboard’ (in the meaning of answering the home task)
Milkevich Elena Stepanovna
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Speaking to One's Heart: דבר and its Semantic Extension
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2016 Cognitive linguists are increasingly recognising the value of metonymy for understanding the way language works. This article applies recent advancements in the theory of metonymy to the Hebrew noun דבר in order to explain its broad semantic range.
Natalie Mylonas +2 more
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