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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 245-263, January 2026.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.
Ludovica Ottaviano +3 more
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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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Articulating Grief: Arts‐Based Therapy as a Pathway to Resilience in Nursing Practice [PDF]
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Grief and bereavement are profound yet underexplored aspects of nursing practice within residential aged care facilities. Registered nurses who work in these settings often form close emotional bonds with residents, making repeated exposure to death deeply impactful.
Michelle Stubbs +3 more
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, 2019 Metonymy (Greek μετωνυμία, Latin denominatio) has been known as a rhetorical trope since Greek antiquity. The online Oxford English Dictionary defines this trope as “[a] figure of speech characterized by the action of substituting for a word or phrase denoting an object, action, institution, etc., a word or phrase denoting a property or something ...
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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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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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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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