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"In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, ""an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics."" The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars working in a pragmatic framework. Topics include the metonymic basis of explicature and implicature, the role of metonymically-based inferences in speech act and discourse interpretation, the pragmatic meaning of grammatical constructions, the impact of metonymic mappings on and their interaction with grammatical structure, the role of metonymic inferencing and implicature in linguistic change, and the comparison of metonymic principles across languages and different cultural settings."

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Author:   Klaus-Uwe Panther (University of Hamburg) ,  Linda L. Thornburg (University of Hamburg)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   113
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9789027253552

ISBN 10:   9027253552
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 July 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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[...] this book reaches its goal of establishing the significance of the topic of metonymy and pragmatic inferencing. As such, it belongs in the library of all serious scholars interested in metonymy. -- Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State University, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 13:2 (2005)

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