10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METONYMIES»
Discover the use of
metonymies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
metonymies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aspects of Meaning Construction
CHAPTER 4 Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar A cross-linguistic
perspective on body part terms* Martin Hilpert Rice University This chapter
investigates chained metonymies, which are metonymies that involve multiple
conceptual ...
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Motivation in Language: Studies in Honor of Günter Radden
I would like to argue that the distinctness criterion can be generalized to PART
FOR WHOLE metonymies and to PART FOR PART metonymies. In PART FOR
WHOLE, the source is necessarily distinct from the target, because the target is ...
3
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
It must be noted that metonymies are cases of one-correspondence mapping.
This is a necessary consequence of the fact that in metonymies there is a domain
-subdomain relationship. This relationship only allows for two kinds of conceptual
...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, 2003
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Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
The four texts total 352 words, in which 143 metonymies were found to operate at
some level. These numbers show that metonymy occurs very frequently,
reflecting the fact that it operates not only at the lexical level, but also, as we have
seen, ...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona, 2009
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Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a ...
(Punchline and main inference intended by the Prime Minister). Guided by fact (
having seeing someone undress) for one of its conventional explanations (
having had a sexual encounter with that person). None of these metonymies
have the ...
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 2011
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Metonymy in Language and Thought
We are not quite sure what happens then, but by about age 4;0 they start to
produce metonymies quite naturally to express things more quickly (creative
metonymical shrinking). They learn conventional metonymies or what one could
call dead ...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden, 1999
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Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and ...
If the total number of words15 of all of the texts is taken as a measuring-rod, the
occurrence of metonymy in the texts is quite significant: in a total of 352 words in
the five texts altogether, 143 metonymies were found to operate at some level.16
...
M. Sandra Peña Cervel, Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 2005
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Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive ...
As for metonymy, according to Cognitive Linguists, a small number of higher-
order conceptual metonymies give rise to a wide range of metonymic
expressions. For instance, the PRODUCER FOR PRODUCT conceptual
metonymy gives rise to ...
Sabine De Knop, Frank Boers, Antoon De Rycker, 2010
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IJCAI-97: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint ...
Rather, it mirrors the fact that the resolution of metonymies is not fully constrained
by metonymic patterns like part-for-whole or producer-for- product. This is
relatively independent of applying an LMF approach or not. In [Hahn and Markert,
...
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The Conventionality of Figurative Language: A Usage-based Study
Table 16: Some examples of source-in-target and target-in-source metonymies
and their relative frequencies The frequencies of the two target-in-source
metonymies are in fact quite high. Both lie above the mean value for all
metonymic ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METONYMIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
metonymies is used in the context of the following news items.
Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom …
In Mr. Coleman's “Metonymies of Pastness” for solo piano the music alternated between brooding darkness, chirpy clarity and an iridescent ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
Opinionator | The Plagiarism Jitters
... as I click on links and read polemics and paragraphs on websites I can't even name, metaphors and metonymies may catch on my brain like ... «New York Times, May 15»
The death of writing? Not again
... company,” he writes, “in its most cutting-edge incarnation, has become the arena in which narratives and fictions, metaphors and metonymies ... «Los Angeles Times, Mar 15»
The Domination System in California
Metonymies for the presumed right and system of domination include, “sovereignty,” “the sovereign,” “dominion,” “civilization,” “jurisdiction,” ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Mar 15»
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he'd be …
... has become the arena in which narratives and fictions, metaphors and metonymies and symbol networks at their most dynamic and incisive ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Kayo Dot played Merc, playing full LPs at Toby Driver's Stone …
... will be joined by Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics) to perform their 2007 debut Sixty Metonymies at the 8 PM set. Then at the 10 PM ... «Brooklyn Vegan, Feb 15»
Teaching and learning in the 'network society'
Even literary tropes such as metaphors and metonymies usually have to be replaced by image-configurations that convey the same idea, but in ... «Thought Leader, Feb 15»
These figures spice your speech
The overused expression "the pen is mightier than the sword," has two metonymies. The pen represents writing; the sword represents military ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Dec 14»
A Mid-Aged Passionate Lover
The lyrics hinting narcissism and post-modernist metonymies could be better executed. With precision of imagery and clarity of metaphors in ... «The Daily Star, Dec 14»
on realism and the real
... metonymies, anthropomorphisms … a sum of human relations … poetically and rhetorically intensified … illusions of which one has forgotten ... «London Review of Books, Dec 14»
