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Pauwels, Paul. 1999. Putting metonymy in its place In Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden. Metonymy in Language and Thought (Human Cognitive Processing series LC 99-23468). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 255–273. 19 pp.
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Article in book
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English
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Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Abstract
In his lexical-semantic study Paul Pauwels investigates the metonymic structure of four related verbs: 'put, set, lay', and 'place'. Pauwels' corpus-based investigation shows that the majority of examples were not of the traditional nominal or referential kind. In his corpus, metonymy often seems to function as a "euphemistic avoidance strategy". But it can also serve as a focusing strategy, which, in extreme cases, may result in dysphemism. The most frequent metonymic type Pauwels encounters in his corpus is based on a relation of inclusion, where a more general concept stands for a more specific concept, or vice versa.
(Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden)