The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action: Metaphonymy

Goossens, Louis

doi:10.1075/pbns.33.06goo

In:By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective
Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 33] 1995
► pp. 159–174

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Metaphonymy

The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action

Louis Goossens

Published online: 8 December 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.33.06goo

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