Metonymy
Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeannette Littlemore (0000-0003-4670-0275, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Metonymy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781107338814 |
| OpenAlex | W618557762 |
| Open Library | OL34559566M |
| ISBN | 9781107338814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 130 |
| References cited | 93 |
'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide range of communicative functions such as textual cohesion, humour, irony, euphemism and hyperbole - all of which play a key role in the development of language and discourse communities. Using authentic data throughout, this book shows how metonymy operates, not just in language, but also in gesture, sign language, art, music, film and advertising. It explores the role of metonymy in cross-cultural communication, along with the challenges it presents to language learners and translators. Ideal for researchers and students in linguistics and literature, as well as teachers and general readers interested in the art of communication.
Cohesion (chemistry) · Conversation · Euphemism · Gesture · Hyperbole · Irony · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Metaphor · Metonymy · Synecdoche · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Figures of speech · Language Arts & Disciplines · Metonyms
Planting tax
Metonymy, metaphor, and multimodal civic meaning-making in children’s tax-themed postcards
Exploring human vs. AI-powered translation to metonymic expressions
O figurativnom jeziku u udžbenicima istorije za osnovnu školu
Metaphors and metonymies used in memes to depict Covid-19 in Jordanian social media websites
Metáfora das emoções Kaiowá
Of the Passage to the Other World
Cognitive Linguistics, Sociocultural Theory and Content and Language Integrated Learning
Cognitive Analysis of Metonymy in Classical Chinese Poetry
A Bibliometric Analysis of Event-Related Potential (ERP) Research on Metaphor Processing
Blasphemy and persecution
Textual functions of metonymies in Anthony Browne’s picture books
The Use of Visual Metonymy in English Textbooks for Young Learners
Conceptual Metonymy of Covid-19 Pandemic in Vietnam’s Online Newspapers
How do Chinese Antonymous Cognate Words Emerge? A Study From the Perspective of Metonymy and Metaphor
Cognitive Precision and Expressiveness in Stock Market Communication
Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
“O prato faz as pessoas”
Kartini and Srikandi
Cognitive Grammar and English nominalization
Metaphor and Metonymy in Kiswahili References to Parts of the Human Body
States of idiosyncratic idealized cognitive models in acts of pragmatic meaning
On the fringes of metaphor
Metaphor, hyperbole, and irony
Complexity theory and conversational humour
Personification and relationships in English as a Medium of Instruction business discourse
Toward a cognitive-pragmatic account of metonymic schemes of thought
Children's metonymy comprehension
The "Balfour Gang" versus "the Saladin Gang
The genealogy of 'gentrification
How abstract concepts emerge from metaphorical images
Understanding figures of speech
Exaggerating and mitigating through metonymy
Gesturing Beyond Modernism
Deconstructing racial code words
Making a Cardinal Point
Lexical Semantics
More Examples, Less Theory
On So-Called Novel and Regular Metonymies
Metonymy and Text Messaging
The Role of Figurative Complexity in the Comprehension and Appreciation of Advertisements
Reasoning Covid-19
Identifying the Key Components of Phraseological Units
The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift
Metonymy as a semiotic resource in fictional narrative
Ukraine’s Voice Makes Russia Angry; Lithuania Speaks Boldly … Constructing attitudinal stance through personification of countries
Figurative language and persuasion in CPG sermons
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers
What makes an awfully good oxymoron
Emily Dickinson and Her Metonymical Way of Knowing Nature
Fraseología cognitiva en español y en chino
Metaphor and metonymy in euphemisms in Queen Elizabeth II's official statements
Two metonymies of Serbian material culture in translation
Between the Cherubim
What Can Science, Religion, Politics, Culture and the Economy Do? A Corpus Study of Metonymical Conceptualization Combined with Personification
Syntactic Variations in Referential Metonymy
Korean Relative Clauses
Preschoolers and adults metonymically extend proper names to owned objects
How country names legitimize economic nationalism
Conventionalized impoliteness formulae in third-party assessments
“That’s not what he meant”
Socio-pragmatic potential of (verbo)-visual metaphtonymy in Internet memes featuring Donald Trump
Creative visual and multimodal metonymy in non-commercial advertisements on substance use
Fear metonymy in Swedish and Japanese crime fiction
From spatial to abstract and back again
The role of metonymy in social identity
Contested paths
Text metaphtonymy
The body politic of independent Scotland
Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation
The metonymic body
Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy
Moral metaphor, metonymic causation
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction
Metaphor analysis of the Covid-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media
“A Primordial Situation”
“The Soccer Field, It Has Dirt”
The downfall
Metaphor, metonymy, and their interaction in the production of semantic approximations by monolingual children
The creative minds of Arab cartoonists
Metaphors we are robbed by
Agonised, localized and politicized
Introduction
Fighting corruption is not a beauty pageant’
The Sino–US trade war in political cartoons
Making cross-cultural meaning in five Chinese promotion clips
Embodied frames and scenes
A seven-step method for analyzing metaphors embedded in social texts
A city of two tales
Abstraction in storytelling
Reproductive rights and the recontextualization of abortion
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism
Representing teachers as criminals in the news
Taboo metaphtonymy, gender, and impoliteness
Discourses that undermine union movements
The “menstruating” Muslim Brotherhood
Subjectless images
Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19
Reality bites
Co-presence and Succession
Metonymy in Onomastics
The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian
Aspects of Referential Metonymy
“Mummy, I like being a sandwich”
Metonymy and Conceptual Integration
Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche
Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
Grammar and Conceptualization
Cognitive Grammar
Constructions at Work
Course in General Linguistics
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Metaphors We Live By
Précis of Relevance
The Brain's concepts
Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? — The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification
Towards a Theory of Metonymy
Verbalized events
The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions
A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Opposition as a Metonymic Principle
Transfers of Meaning
The Emergence of Metaphor in Discourse
An Investigation into Metaphor Use at Different Levels of Second Language Writing
From Movement to Metaphor with Manner-of-Movement Verbs
Difficulties in Metaphor Comprehension Faced by International Students whose First Language is not English
Scraping the Barrel with a Shower of Social Misfits
"Something in the Way She Moves"-Metaphors of Musical Motion
Metaphoric cognition as social activity
Pictorial metonymy as creativity source in “Purificación García” advertising campaigns
Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese
Mip
Shattering the Bell Jar
The Role of Alliteration and Rhyme in Novel Metaphorical and Metonymical Compounds
Temporal Unfolding of Conceptual Metaphoric Experience
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign Language Poetry
Speaking With Forked Tongue
Combining Large and Small Corpora to Investigate Tuning Devices Around Metaphor in Spoken Discourse
Corpus-Based Metonymy Analysis
Domains and Dimensions in Metonymy
Figurative Uses of Finger and Palm in Chinese and English
EFL learners’ awareness of metonymy–metaphor continuum in figurative expressions
Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English
On Linguistic Aspects of Translation
Ideology
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
A cognitive approach to the translation of metonymy-based humor
Metonymic inferencing and second language acquisition
Making good psychology out of blending theory
A cognitive key
The problem of data in the cognitive linguistic research on metonymy
Pointing left in Ghana
Catchments, prosody and discourse
On gestural mimicry
Serial metonymy
King Oswald's Holy Hands
Metaphor at work in the analysis of political discourse
Phonological similarity in multi-word units
Metaphor and metonymy
A construction approach to innovative verbs in Japanese
Metaphtonymy
Metonymy as a prototypical category
Reference-point constructions
Don't let metonymy be misunderstood
The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies
Script theory revis(it)ed
Cognitive linguistics and humor
The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor
Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics
Contexts and usage in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Gender Voices in Hong Kong English Textbooks—Some Past and Current Practices
Using masculine generics
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
The Principles of Semantics
The Lady's Not for Turning’ but What About the Rest? Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party 1979–89
Semantic and phonological performance in adults learning novel object and action words
Differences in Noun and Verb Processing in Lexical Decision Cannot be Attributed to Word Form and Morphological Complexity Alone
"Effects of Right and Left Hemisphere Damage on Performance of the "Right Hemisphere Communication Battery
Theories Are Buildings Revisited
The Metaphor-Metonymy Relationship
Semantic Underspecification in Language Processing
Metonymy and the grammar
Discourse markers as metaphor signalling devices in psychotherapeutic talk
On understanding familiar and less-familiar figurative language
Austrian dialect as a metonymic device
Primary metaphors and monomodal visual metaphors
A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation
On the nature of blending as a cognitive phenomenon
| Unique citing works | 130 |
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| Citations per year | 13 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 95 |