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A new approach to classification of Metonymy and figurative images [PDF]
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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Possibilities of metonymy in the designation of a person in colloquial speech
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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Poetic Metonymy As a Type of Lexical Meaning and Its Reflection in Lexicographic Practice
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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On the creative use of metonymy [PDF]
Antonio Barcelona’s work has advanced our understanding of the role played by pragmatics in the production and comprehension of metonymy. Much of his work has focused on playful uses of metonymy, which involve creative extensions of attested metonymic ...
Littlemore, Jeannette; id_orcid
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Cognitive Principles in Metonymic Headlines
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]
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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Metonymy as a Pragma-Rhetorical Feature in some Speeches of Imam Ali
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,
Fareed Hameed d Al-Hindawi +1 more
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Many hands on this study: Development of a metonymy comprehension task [PDF]
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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Cognitive Principles in the Basis of Default Metonymy
The article studies metonymy in English. Traditionally metonymy is understood as a stylistic device. This, however, does not explain the cases of everyday or ‘default’ metonymy, such as ‘to go to the blackboard’ (in the meaning of answering the home task)
Milkevich Elena Stepanovna
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Metaphor, metonymy, language learning and translation [PDF]
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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