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Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden. 2005. Metonymy. In Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 2003–2005 Installment. John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | metonymy | pragmatics | rhetoric | speech act

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay addresses the rhetorical tradition of metonymy; metonymy as a conceptual and pragmatic phenomenon; metonymy in language; and areas of future reseach (such as the discourse function of metonymy and constraints on the use of metonymy).