"This is a book to interest researchers and students of semiotics, cognitive linguistics, literary interpretation, rhetoric and stylistics."--Jacket.
Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a full historical account of treatments of metonymy, incorporating the Western and Arabic classical traditions, up to the present time is given and critiqu…
"This is a book to interest researchers and students of semiotics, cognitive linguistics, literary interpretation, rhetoric and stylistics."--Jacket.
The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, t…
