SearchPublisher and Institutes
You are here: Home :: Keyword index :: (cu bis pub :: mass psychogenic illness - mimesis 
metonymy
Items for "metonymy"
On the continuous debate about discreteness
The issue of discreteness vs. continuity comes into play in all domains of linguistic analysis and at multiple levels...
Keywords: discreteness vs. continuity, network model, grammar, metonymy, reference point
03/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterSpace-to-time mappings and temporal concepts
Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...
Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterMetonymy as a prototypical category
A definition of metonymy that has gained some popularity in Cognitive Linguistics contrasts metonymical semantic shifts within a domain or domain matrix with metaphorical shifts that cross domain boundaries...
Keywords: metonymy, prototypicality
10/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter