In:Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 113] 2003
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 17 July 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.113.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.113.toc
Table of contents
List of contributorsix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction: On the nature of conceptual metonymy
Part I. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics
Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication
Metonymy and conceptual blending
The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing: Evidence from jokes and funny anecdotes
Part II. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure
A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts
Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas: The case of dependent clauses as independent speech acts
Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German
Part III. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change
The development of counterfactual implicatures in English: A case of metonymy or M-inference?
Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese
Part IV. Metonymic inferencing across languages
Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages
Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian
Name index
Metonymy and metaphor index
Subject index
