Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down
From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026)
Editors
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 13:1] Expected April 2026. vi, 274 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- Metonymic thinking all the way down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyondCarmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona & Almudena Soto Nieto | pp. 1–18
- Metonymy in pragmatic inferencing in a sample of English and Spanish spoken and written textsAntonio Barcelona, Beatriz Martín-Gascón & Inés Lozano-Palacio | pp. 19–46
- Modeling figuration in speech actsKlaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg | pp. 47–77
- Arguing for a “broader” view of metonymy in word-formationPetr Kos & Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio | pp. 78–106
- Metonymy in morphological recategorization: The case of Spanish body-part verbsCarmen Portero Muñoz | pp. 107–144
- Conceptual metonymy in the use of cardinal numbers in Spanish and EnglishAlmudena Soto Nieto & Javier Morras Cortés | pp. 145–170
- The taste of smells: Metonymically motivated synesthetic expressions in HungarianMáté Tóth | pp. 171–204
- Metonymies we sign by: Metonymies as a multilevel phenomenon in sign languagesMario Brdar & Rita Brdar Szabó | pp. 205–244
- Meaning construal in contemporary danceOlga Blanco Carrión | pp. 245–273
Introduction
Section 1. Metonymy in discourse
Section 2. Metonymy in morphology
Section 3. Metonymy in the lexicon
Section 4. Metonymy in sign languages and dance