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, 2017 Put simply, metonymy is a process whereby one entity or event is used to refer to another, related, entity or event. For example, in the sentence ‘the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor’ (BNC), ‘Number 10’ to refers metonymically to the UK ...
Littlemore, Jeannette; id_orcid
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Lexical facets and metonymy Lexical facets and metonymy
Ilha do Desterro, 2008 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
D. Alan Cruse
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Metaphor, metonymy, language learning and translation
, 2012 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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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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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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Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined
, 2019 This essay is linked with a lengthy book I published in 2015, Masterpieces of Metonymy. There I argued that metonymy and metaphor, as they are known in verbal art, are analogous respectively to horizontal and vertical threading in the art of weaving ...
Nagy, Gregory
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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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Text Metaphtonymy: The interplay of metonymy and metaphor in discourse [PDF]
, 2018 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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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,
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