Metonymy in Language and Thought

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Metonymy in Language and Thought is written by Klaus-Uwe Panther and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027223564 (ISBN 10) and 9789027223562 (ISBN 13).

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a “figure of thought,” underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.