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

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Published online: 15 September 1999

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Table of contents

Introduction1

Klaus-Uwe Panther

Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy

Towards a Theory of Metonymy

Zoltán Kövecses

Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy61

Raymond W. Gibbs

Metonymy and Conceptual Integration77

Gilles Fauconnier

Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche91

Aspects of Referential Metonymy121

Beatrice Warren

Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy

frame and Cognity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word Formation139

Co-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of Metonymy169

Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts193

Metonymy in Onomastics211

Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy

Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object233

Richard Waltereit

Putting Metonymy in its Place255

Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata275

Opposition as a Metonymic Principle289

Christian Vosshagen

Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions309

The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian333

Klaus-Uwe Panther

Part IV: Applications of Metonymy

“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language Acquisition361

Brigitte Nerlich

Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison’s Song of Solomon385

List of Contributors401

Subject index405

Author index413

Metonymy and metaphor index419