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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. 163–194

Chapter 8
Metonymy

A figure of indexical and associative reasoning

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Metonymy in literary and ordinary language
    • 2.1Examples of metonymy in literary language
    • 2.2Examples of metonymy in ordinary language
  • 3.Properties of metonymy
    • 3.1Situation and context
    • 3.2Metonymy as an indexical and associative relation
    • 3.3Metonymy as reasoning within a conceptual frame
    • 3.4Conceptual distance between source and target
    • 3.5Contingent relation between source and target
    • 3.6Pragmatic effects
    • 3.7Experiential and sociocultural motivation of metonymy
    • 3.8Transparency of metonymy motivation
  • 4.Metonymy as abductive reasoning
  • 5.Constraining the scope of metonymy
  • 6.Types of metonymy
    • 6.1Referential metonymies
    • 6.2Predicational metonymies
    • 6.3Modificational metonymies
    • 6.4Grounding metonymies
    • 6.5Illocutionary metonymies
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes