- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'What those boys need is a good handbagging'. What is metonymy?; 2. 'He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all over the place'. Types of metonymy and their behaviour in real-world data; 3. 'He's only bowing to his passport'. Theoretical models of metonymy: uses and drawbacks; 4. ''BBC', her mother would have said'. What do people use metonymy for?; 5. 'But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears silk underpants?'. Playful, evaluative and creative functions of metonymy; 6. 'The Government of Britain is sort of there'. How can we identify 'metonymy'?; 7. 'I found Robbie Williams in the lounge'. How is metonymy processed in the mind?; 8. 'He started as nobody from Austria'. Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation in metonymy: implications for language learning and translation; 9. 'These huts did absolutely unbelievable work'. What do we now know about metonymy?
- ISBN
- 9781316247709
- 1316247708
- 9781107338814
- 1107338816
- OCLC
- 900943749
- Author
Littlemore, Jeannette, author.
- Title
Metonymy : hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication / Jeannette Littlemore.
- Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Print version record.
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Print version: Littlemore, Jeannette, author. Metonymy 9781107043626 (DLC) 2014029910 (OCoLC)888165297