Referential Metonymy

By Beatrice Warren
December 2006
Almqvist & Wiksell
Distributed by Coronet Books Inc.
ISBN: 9122021485
71 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/4"
$69.50 Paper Original

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Contents include:

1. Introduction

2. Part I: Homing in on Referential Metonymy
2.1 Propositional and Referential Metonymy
2.2 Metonymy and Synecdoche
2.3 Metonymy and Metaphor

3. Part II: Describing Referential Metonymy
3.1 Syntactic Characteristics
3.2 Notional Characteristics
3.2.1 Reference scope of the explicit element
3.2.2 Metonymy as a rhetorical device
3.2.3 Semantic Patterns
3.2.3.1 Theoretical status of the patterns

4. Summing Up

Acknowledgements
Appendix
References

Linguistics


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