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Publication details [#64945]

Littlemore, Jeannette and Caroline Tagg. 2018. Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy. Applied Linguistics 39 (3).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creativity | message1 | metonymy | text | understanding

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper reports findings from a profound inquiry of metonymy in a 11,067-word corpus of text-messages, to display how metonymy is creatively employed in daily texts.