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Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2001
The range of phenomena labelled as “metonymy” is so multifarious that it may seem impossible to reduce all these phenomena to a common semantic denominator. In accordance with many traditional and modern accounts in the fields of rhetoric and linguistics, this article reconstructs metonymy as a linguistic effect upon the content of a given form, based ...
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The range of phenomena labelled as “metonymy” is so multifarious that it may seem impossible to reduce all these phenomena to a common semantic denominator. In accordance with many traditional and modern accounts in the fields of rhetoric and linguistics, this article reconstructs metonymy as a linguistic effect upon the content of a given form, based ...
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2015
'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide range of communicative functions such as
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'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide range of communicative functions such as
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Metonymy of Aspect/Aspects of Metonymy
Scando-Slavica, 2009Ever since Lakoff and Johnson (1980) published their seminal monograph Metaphors We Live By, metaphor has been a cornerstone in cognitive linguistics, while metonymy has received less attention. However, recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in metonymy (Peirsman and Geeraerts 2006 and Croft 2006), and it is therefore natural to ask what the ...
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Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2001
Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature.
Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke
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Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature.
Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke
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Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 1982
A FTER A CENTURY OF CRITICISM, much remains to be said about Trollope's technique. His approach to traditional or perhaps obsolescent concepts of the novel and his morality have been much studied. But relatively little is known of his writing practice other than what he himself revealed in his Autobiography.
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A FTER A CENTURY OF CRITICISM, much remains to be said about Trollope's technique. His approach to traditional or perhaps obsolescent concepts of the novel and his morality have been much studied. But relatively little is known of his writing practice other than what he himself revealed in his Autobiography.
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Metonymie is geen stijlfiguur: metonymie is overal
Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 1970Examples of metonymy in lexicons on literature have nothing to do with literary sentencesin which a figure of speech is used. Linguists have become aware that metonymyaffects normal language in many different ways: Not only the meaning of lexical wordscan be metonymical, but grammar also shows many metonymical shifts.
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2021
This article discusses metaphor and metonymy as understood in contemporary linguistics, i.e., as processes that appear in language as well as in thinking about the world. Following their definition and a short historical overview, the main characteristics of metaphor and metonymy are described, namely source, target, and their connection and ...
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This article discusses metaphor and metonymy as understood in contemporary linguistics, i.e., as processes that appear in language as well as in thinking about the world. Following their definition and a short historical overview, the main characteristics of metaphor and metonymy are described, namely source, target, and their connection and ...
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2016
Advances a ground-breaking new study of metonymy, filling a gap in literary analytical scholarship Contains rigorous analysis of extensive examples from a wide range of literary sources, including classical Greek tragedy and lyric poetry and German Romantic poetry Relates classical perspectives and concepts from ancient rhetoric and poetics to modern ...
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Advances a ground-breaking new study of metonymy, filling a gap in literary analytical scholarship Contains rigorous analysis of extensive examples from a wide range of literary sources, including classical Greek tragedy and lyric poetry and German Romantic poetry Relates classical perspectives and concepts from ancient rhetoric and poetics to modern ...
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