Metonymy in language and thought /:

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive pheno...

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Weitere Verfasser: Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-, Radden, Günter
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1999.
Schriftenreihe:Human cognitive processing ; v. 4.
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Zusammenfassung:Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a "figure of thought," underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frame
Beschreibung:Papers presented at a workshop held June 23-24, 1996, Hamburg University.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 423 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027299376
9027299374
ISSN:1387-6724 ;