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Metonymy : hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication /
"'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are all e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'What those boys need is a good handbagging'. What is metonymy?
- 'He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all over the place'. Types of metonymy and their behaviour in real-world data
- 'He's only bowing to his passport'. Theoretical models of metonymy: uses and drawbacks
- ''BBC', her mother would have said'. What do people use metonymy for?
- 'But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears silk underpants?'. Playful, evaluative and creative functions of metonymy
- 'The Government of Britain is sort of there'. How can we identify 'metonymy'?
- 'I found Robbie Williams in the lounge'. How is metonymy processed in the mind?
- 'He started as nobody from Austria'. Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation in metonymy: implications for language learning and translation
- 'These huts did absolutely unbelievable work'. What do we now know about metonymy?