Publications

Publication details [#53365]

Halverson, Sandra L. and Jan Oskar Engene. 2010. Domains and Dimensions in Metonymy: A Corpus-Based Study of Schengen and Maastricht. Metaphor and Symbol 25 (1) : 1–18.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | indeterminacy | metonymy | newspaper report | place deixis

Language as a subject

Norwegian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study uses a prototype account of metonymy, covering both domains and dimensions, to examine the placenames Schengen and Maastricht in Norwegian newspaper corpora, and in particular to make assumptions about metonymic development, indeterminacy, and chaining.