Table of contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The complex task of studying metonymy
1
Part 1.General issues in the description of metonymy: Issues in the design and implementation of a metonymy database
Chapter 1.General description of the metonymy database in the Córdoba project,
with particular attention to the issues of hierarchy, prototypicality,
and taxonomic domains
27
Chapter 2.Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the
characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology
of metonymy)
55
Chapter 3.Analysis of metonymic triggers, metonymic chaining, and patterns of
interaction with metaphor and with other metonymies as part of the
metonymy database in the Córdoba project
75
Part 2.Discussion of some general properties of metonymy
Chapter 4.Some contrast effects in metonymy
97
Chapter 5.What kind of reasoning mode is metonymy?
121
Chapter 6.
Molly married money
: Reflections on conceptual metonymy
161
Part 3.Ubiquity of metonymy in languages
Chapter 7.How metonymy motivates constructions: The case of monoclausal if-only P constructions
in English
185
Chapter 8.The role of metonymy in the constructionist approach to the
conceptualization of emotions
205
Chapter 9.The mouth of the speaker: Italian metonymies of Linguistic Action
237
Chapter 10.‘Are smartphone face and
Googleheads a real or a fake phenomenon?’: The current role of metonymy in semantic exocentricity
261
Chapter 11.Metonymy and the dynamics of conceptual operations in Spanish Sign
Language
287
Metonymy index
Name index
311
Subject index
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