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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 43–73

Chapter 2
Metonymy

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Definition
    • An operational definition of metonymy
  • 2.3Metonymy and contiguity
    • 2.3.1Peirsman and Geeraerts’ contiguity cline
    • 2.3.2Frames, schemas and degrees of contiguity
    • 2.3.3Probability and degrees of contiguity
  • 2.4Onamosiological conventionality, and zone activation v. metonymy
  • 2.5Conventionalisation of metonymies
  • 2.6Some conventional metonymy themes
  • 2.7Metonymy, deletion and semantic roles
  • 2.8Interpreting metonymy according to the semantic
    elements of the clause
  • 2.9Textually generated metonymies and local conventionalisation
  • Notes
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