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Metonymy and word-formation : their interactions and complementation /

This book deals with the interplay between word-formation and metonymy. It shows that, like metaphor, metonymy interacts in important ways with morphological structure, but also warns us against a virtually unconstrained conception of metonymy. The central claim here is that word-formation and meton...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brdar, Mario (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter One; 1.1 Communicative needs and lexicalization strategies; 1.2 Word-formation; Chapter Two; 2.1 Metonymy as a figure of thought rather than merely a figure of speech; 2.2 Towards a working definition of metonymy; 2.3 Metonymy and grammar; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; 4.1 Metonymy in non-concatenative word-formation, or rather preceding and/or following it; 4.2 Metonymy and abbreviations (alphabetisms and acronyms); 4.3 Back-formation and metonymy; 4.4 Clipping and metonymy
  • 4.5 Lexical blending, conceptual blending and metonymy4.6 Reduplication and metonymy; 4.7 Conversion and metonymy; Chapter Five; 5.1 Metonymy and compounds; 5.2 Metonymy and suffixation; Chapter Six; 6.1 Metonymy and word-formation complementing or blocking each other; 6.2 Word-formation blocking metonymy; 6.3 Metonymy blocking word-formation?; Chapter Seven; References; Index