Over the past few decades, cognitive linguistic research has turned metonymy from the "poor sister" of metaphor into a ubiquitous conceptual phenomenon. However, this broad notion of metonymy might run the risk of becoming too unrestricted and vacuous. In order to come to grips …
Over the past few decades, cognitive linguistic research has turned metonymy from the "poor sister" of metaphor into a ubiquitous conceptual phenomenon. However, this broad notion of metonymy might run the risk of becoming too unrestricted and vacuous. In order to come to grips …
"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.
