Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025)
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[Metaphor and the Social World, 15:2] 2025. vi, 151 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 November 2025
Published online on 13 November 2025
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Table of Contents
- Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymyMarlene Johansson Falck & Thomas Wiben Jensen | pp. 185–195
- The metonymic bodyRaymond W. Gibbs, Jr. | pp. 196–204
- Looking back on the metaphor-metonymy divide: Making peace with blurred boundaries and shape-shiftersNiamh A. O’Dowd | pp. 205–217
- From spatial to abstract and back again: The challenging case of hidden metonymies for metaphor identification scholarsMarlene Johansson Falck & Lacey Okonski | pp. 218–241
- Moral metaphor, metonymic causation: An examination of the intertwined metaphoric/metonymic nature and social use of plet as an expression of social exposure and shame in DanishThomas Wiben Jensen | pp. 242–262
- Fear metonymy in Swedish and Japanese crime fiction: Literal, conventional, and creative expressionsAnnika Hillbom & Misuzu Shimotori | pp. 263–287
- Creative visual and multimodal metonymy in non-commercial advertisements on substance useLaura Hidalgo-Downing | pp. 288–313
- A. Piata. 2018. The Poetics of Time — Metaphors and Blends in Language and LiteratureReviewed by Alena Revutskaya | pp. 314–320
- D. L Ritchie. 2022. Feeling, Thinking, and Talking How the Embodied Brain Shapes Everyday CommunicationReviewed by Danyang Li | pp. 321–328
- A. Baicchi. 2020. Figurative meaning construction in thought and languageReviewed by Lorena Bort-Mir | pp. 329–335
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