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The ham sandwich in the corner wants more coffee: the relevance of metonymy to language learning [PDF]
, 2009 If we were to make a list of the areas of linguistic knowledge a learner needs to be competent in - eg syntax, lexis, collocation, phraseology, pragmatics, discourse knowledge, world knowledge - then 'metonymy' (the relationships, especially part-whole ...
Denroche, C.
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Metaphor and metonymy in literature. [PDF]
, 2023 This article is selected examples of metonymy from metaphor and from literalness and anomaly in short English sentences. In the method, literalness is distinguished because it satisfies contextual constraints that the nonliteral others all violate ...
Safarova Zarina Giyosovna +1 more
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The Extraordinary and the Ordinary: The Possibilities and Problems of Eberhard Jüngel’s Hermeneutics
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 66-81, January 2026.Abstract Eberhard Jüngel insists on the absolute transcendence of God and on human language as the vehicle for that transcendence. In doing so, he makes claims both about the power of language and the limits of humanity in relation to language. In exploring this tension, the essay will examine whether Jüngel successfully navigates the tension between ...
Deborah Casewell
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Journal of World Philosophies, 2017 In this paper, I examine Kumārila Bhaṭṭa's account of figurative language in Tantravārttika 1.4.11-17, arguing that, for him, both metonymy (lakṣaṇā) and metaphor (gauṇa-vṛtti) crucially involve verbal postulation (śrutârthāpatti), a knowledge-conducive ...
Malcolm Keating
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Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1988 A computational approach to metonymy and metaphor is proposed that distinguishes between them, literalness, and anomaly. The approach supports Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) views that metonymy and metaphor are quite different phenomena, that in metonymy an entity stands for another, whereas in metaphor an entity is viewed as another.
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A Corpus-based Study of Metonymy in Mandarin Spoken Discourse [PDF]
, 2007 本篇論文旨在探討轉喻於中文口語語料中的呈現，並且從認知和語用的角度切入來闡述與解釋其表現型態的背後動機。 轉喻是一種涉及替代關係的重要概念運作。然而過去轉喻卻一直被視為附屬於隱喻之下的次要機制，長久以來鮮少引起學者的關注。近來，語言學界開始注意到此概念機制的重要性，一些學者也開始探究轉喻的運作與功能。然而，關於轉喻的討論至今仍多屬理論性的探討，少有研究著墨於轉喻在真實語言使用中的表現，更沒有以中文為基礎的相關討論。有鑑於此，本篇論文將以中文口語語料作為分析基礎，探究轉喻在兩個不同語言層次 ...
吳芷誼, Wu, Chih-Yi
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Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.There is reportedly widespread negativity towards the concept of ‘processed food’, yet limited analysis of how it is represented in everyday language. This study examined how processed food was constructed on the social media network Twitter (since rebranded as X), October–December 2018. Tweets were collected using the Keyhole platform.
Christina R. Sadler +6 more
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Metaphor, metonymy and image-schemas: an analysis of conceptual interaction patterns [PDF]
, 2001 In Cognitive Linguistics the study of conceptual interaction has attracted the attention of many scholars. Analyses have primarily focused on the role of image-schemas in the construction of metaphors and on the types of interplay that can take place ...
Díez Velasco, Olga Isabel
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Metonymy in Greta Thunberg’s Climate Change Discourse on Facebook
FilologThe issue of climate change, which still remains among one of the most significant challenges to humanity (Han et al., 2024; Malhi et al., 2020), is routinely addressed by politicians and public figures, such as, for instance, the Swedish climate ...
Oleksandr Kapranov
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