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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1999.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | Papers presented at a workshop held June 23-24, 1996, Hamburg University. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 423 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027299376 9027299374 |
| ISSN: | 1387-6724 ; |