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Poetry Incarnate: Puccini’s Mimì as metonymy and metaphor combined
, 2019 This essay is linked with a lengthy book I published in 2015, Masterpieces of Metonymy. There I argued that metonymy and metaphor, as they are known in verbal art, are analogous respectively to horizontal and vertical threading in the art of weaving ...
Nagy, Gregory
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Persian Bahuvrihi Compounds: The operation of metonymy and metaphor [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThe present study aims towards investigating the conceptual motivation underlying the creation and understanding of Persian Bahuvrihi compounds. It is also trying to specify the conceptual types of these compounds according to the metonymical and ...
Masoumeh Diyanati, Reza Rezaei
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Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1993 We propose a distinction between two kinds of metonymy: "referential" metonymy, in which the referent of an NP is shifted, and "predicative" metonymy, in which the referent of the NP is unchanged and the argument place of the predicate is shifted instead.
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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)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 ...
Mario Brdar
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Two metonymies of Serbian material culture in translation [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniOver the past decades, metonymy has evolved from a poetic device to a conceptual system grounded in human experience. The aim of the paper is to investigate translation strategies which may be applied to the translation of popular Serbian cultural ...
Daničić Mirjana M.
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Referential metonymy: Cognitive bases and communicative functions [PDF]
, 2021 Referential metonymy is a variety of figurative usage wherein our apprehension of relations of contiguity (e.g. the ‘distinctive property-individual’ relation) is exploited in order to pick out a specific target referent in the communicative context: The
Bowerman, Josephine Ellen Scarlett
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Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филологияThis review is devoted to the monograph «Lexical metonymy in linguistic and cognitive comprehension» by N.A. Ilyukhina, who examines the problems of using metonymic nomination of objects, processes and persons in various denotative and discursive spheres.
V. D. Shevchenko
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Neorealism, Contingency and the Linguistic Turn
Humanities, 2019 Since the publication of Roman Jakobson’s famous 1956 essay “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances”, we have tended to read the relationship between metaphor and metonymy as a dialectical one.
Thomas Claviez
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Metonymy: a vital resource in communication and conceptualization
, 2009 Roman Jakobson, in his 1956 essay on aphasia, identifies metaphor and metonymy as fundamental processes in communication. He sees communication progressing along one of two paths, the metaphoric and the metonymic, and claims that “in normal behaviour ...
Denroche, C.
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Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy [PDF]
, 2016 The significance of linguistic creativity in everyday situations is now widely recognized in applied linguistics. There has been substantial discussion of the role played by various tropes in the development of linguistic creativity.
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