Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche

Seto, Ken-ichi

doi:10.1075/hcp.4.06set

In:Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
[Human Cognitive Processing 4] 1999
► pp. 91–120

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Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche

Ken-ichi Seto

Published online: 15 September 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.4.06set

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