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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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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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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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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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Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds in English: a cognitive linguistic approach [PDF]
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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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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In this article we outline a basic approach to treating metonymy properly in a multilingual machine translation system. This is the first attempt at treating metonymy in an machine translation environment. The approach is guided by the differences of acceptability of metonymy which were obtained by our comparative survey among three languages, English,
Shin-ichiro Kamei, Takahiro Wakao
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The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]
This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument ...
Andreas Musolff +40 more
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Rhetoric in standard setting : the case of the going-concern audit [PDF]
This paper seeks to explore in depth the ways in which the rhetoric of the standard setter responds to comments received during development of a standard.
Masocha, Walter, Weetman, Pauline
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Metaphoric coherence: Distinguishing verbal metaphor from `anomaly\u27 [PDF]
Theories and computational models of metaphor comprehension generally circumvent the question of metaphor versus “anomaly” in favor of a treatment of metaphor versus literal language.
Aarts J. +31 more
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