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How to disentangle the metonymy – word-formation puzzle [PDF]
The book ‘Metonymy and Word- Formation. Their Interactions and Complementation’ authored by Mario Brdar, proposes an original, insightful and extremely valuable look into the relation between two linguistic phenomena: metonymy and word formation.
Maja Brala-Vukanović
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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]
Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ottaviano L +3 more
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Metaphor, metonymy, language learning and translation
This thesis investigates the role of metonymy in communication, in creating text, in learner communication and in translation. I make the claim that metonymy, defined here as the ability to recognize part-whole relations between things, words and ...
Denroche, C.
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On the creative use of metonymy [PDF]
Antonio Barcelona’s work has advanced our understanding of the role played by pragmatics in the production and comprehension of metonymy. Much of his work has focused on playful uses of metonymy, which involve creative extensions of attested metonymic ...
Littlemore, Jeannette; id_orcid +1 more
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Text Metaphtonymy: The interplay of metonymy and metaphor in discourse [PDF]
This article starts by looking at the various ways metonymic and metaphoric thinking, as independent phenomena, organize text at discourse level. The literature on Metaphor in Discourse is classified under three broad categories, 'metaphor clusters ...
Denroche, C.
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The Discursive Metonymy in the Imagery of American Folklore Ballads
Introduction. The article presents the effort to describe the semantics of American folklore ballads with account of the links between the images involved in the text creation.
Тетяна Суворова
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Poetic Metonymy As a Type of Lexical Meaning and Its Reflection in Lexicographic Practice
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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A new approach to classification of Metonymy and figurative images [PDF]
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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Bibliography of Metaphor & Metonymy
The Bibliography of Metaphor & Metonymy (MetBib) is a John Benjamins' project coordinated by Antonio Barcelona & Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñeza. MetBib is resource for anyone interested in metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language.
CLAUDIA ROBERTA COMBEI
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Cognitive Principles in Metonymic Headlines
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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