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, 2019 AbstractThis chapter addresses metonymy, an operation that is used to refer to an entity by means of an expression that has a particular semantic or conceptual relation to that entity (e.g. ‘the ham sandwich’ referring to a customer at a restaurant or ‘the wooden turtle’ referring to an object on a shelf). It discusses different types and communicative
Schumacher, Petra B.
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Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014 In current research on discourse analysis and on metonymy there is an idea that is missing: the study of the discourse potential of metonymic activity.
José Luis Otal Campo
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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract 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.
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On Conceptual Potentials of Metonymy
OALib, 2016 Metonymy is a more deeply embedded and ingrained capability of the human mind than classical approaches may tell. The cognitive turn in linguistics changed the point of view to the interaction between language and mind, thus, new approaches to understand what metonymy is might come into life.
Droessiger, Hans-Harry +1 more
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The Role of Rhetorical Science in Exegesis of the Qur’an (A Case Study of Metonymy and Allusion in At-Tibyan by Sheikh Tusi and al-Kashshaf by Zamakhshari) [PDF]
پژوهشهای تفسیر تطبیقی, 2019 Metonymy is one of the most significant artistic figures of speech in every language which represents the speaker’s skillful and effective discourse. The holy Qur’an as a miracle scripture appropriate for the linguistic requirements of the audience has ...
Fatemeh Ameri, Alireza Baqer
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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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On the regularity of metonymy across languages (exemplified on some metonymies in medical discourse)
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2019 The topic of metonymy regularity has cropped up in several recent articles, a welcome sign of growing interest in this phenomenon, which may eventually contribute towards shedding more light on the phenomenon of metonymic competence, paralleling ...
Brdar Mario
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The Discursive Metonymy in the Imagery of American Folklore Ballads
Психолінгвістика, 2020 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
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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Possibilities of metonymy in the designation of a person in colloquial speech
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023 The article analyzes functions of lexical metonymy in colloquial speech and explores actual aspects of this issue that are caused by the history of the study of this phenomenon in linguistic literature.
D. A. Deryugina, N. A. Ilyukhina
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