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Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014
In current research on discourse analysis and on metonymy there is an idea that is missing: the study of the discourse potential of metonymic activity.
José Luis Otal Campo
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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionMetonymy has gained increasing attention for its role in shaping language, thought, and communication. Despite its prominence, the thematic evolution and future directions of metonymy research remain underexplored. This study seeks to address
Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin
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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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Construction of a Model of Metonymy Chains in Translation of Chinese Classics

SAGE Open
According to the conceptual metonymy theory of cognitive linguistics, the relationship between the target text and the source text can be interpreted as a type of metonymy, which is still left unexplored in Chinese classics with various types of ...
Weijuan Chen, Weizhong Lu
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The 'new rhetoric': metonymy and metaphor in everyday communication

, 2006
Roman Jakobson, in an essay published in 1956, proposed that there are two, and only two, axes of human expression: the metonymic and the metaphoric. This talk explores the implications of this for everyday communication in the real world.
Denroche, C.
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Metaphor, metonymy and image-schemas: an analysis of conceptual interaction patterns

, 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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Figuration, Translation and Linguistic Processing: Metonymy as a Metaphor for Translation

, 2015
Over the years, many scholars have recognized the importance of figuration in translation. Early work presents checklists for dealing with ‘troublesome’ idioms (eg Dagut 1976, Broeck 1981), while more recent work applies Cognitive Metaphor Theory to ...
Denroche, C.
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On Psychological Function of Metonymy in the Language of Fiction

RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 2013
The article discusses the metonymy as a special technique of creative thinking. The authors suggest accentuating the psychological functions of the metonymy in addition to the lexical-semantic and stylistic functions on the basis of the analysis of the ...
A L Novikov, M A Rybakov
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On Conceptual Potentials of Metonymy

OALib, 2016
Metonymy is a more deeply embedded and ingrained capability of the human mind than classical approaches may tell. The cognitive turn in linguistics changed the point of view to the interaction between language and mind, thus, new approaches to understand what metonymy is might come into life.
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The ham sandwich in the corner wants more coffee: the relevance of metonymy to language learning

, 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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