In:Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 43–73
Chapter 2Metonymy
Published online: 8 November 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.78.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.78.c2
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
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