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Pragmatics and Literature
Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 35] 2019
► pp. 165–190

Chapter 8
Mapping the texture of the Berlin Wall

Metonymy, layered worlds, and critical Implicatures in Sarah Kirsch’s poem “Naturschutzgebiet/nature reserve”

Article outline
  • 8.1Introduction
  • 8.2Sarah Kirsch and her work
  • 8.3Texture
  • 8.4Metonymy
    • 8.4.1Cognitive linguistic accounts of metonymy
    • 8.4.2Relevance-theoretic accounts of metonymy
    • 8.4.3Cognitive-pragmatic accounts of metonymy
  • 8.5Textual analysis
    • 8.5.1Building the text worlds of the Berlin Wall: Metonymies of past and present
    • 8.5.2Metaphors along the wall: Metonymies of nature and reserve
    • 8.5.3The wall as protection: Metonymy of effect for cause
  • 8.6Summary
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 5 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.35.08war
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