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Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds in English: a cognitive linguistic approach [PDF]
, 2005 The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun--noun compounds which is activated by metaphor and/or metonymy (often termed as "exocentric" compounds in linguistics and generally regarded as semantically opaque) can be accounted ...
Benczes, Réka
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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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Poetic Metonymy As a Type of Lexical Meaning and Its Reflection in Lexicographic Practice
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 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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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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On Multiple Metonymies Within Indirect Speech Acts [PDF]
, 2007 Indirect speech acts are frequently structured by more than a single metonymy. The metonymies are related not only to the illocutionary force of the utterances, but also function within the individual lexemes being their parts. An indirect speech act can
KOSECKI, KRZYSZTOF
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Cognitive Principles in Metonymic Headlines
Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki, 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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SOURCE-IN-TARGET METONYMY AND TARGET-IN-SOURCE METONYMY IN TEXTS ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2019 The paper deals with the way source-in-target metonymy and target-insource metonymy are used in text on international affairs. In such texts, the notion in the source domain is typically a toponym, but there are cases in which the source can be an ...
Aleksandra Aleksandrova
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