Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension

Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse ComprehensionThis volume, written by a foremost expert, is a fascinating contribution to cognitive linguistic research on metonymy analyzing authentic texts. Its five studies expand current metonymy theory by providing evidence that metonymies regularly occur at more than one analytical level of the same utterance and that they chain to each other in discourse following certain patterns. Several analytical notions are developed or refined, such as "inferential

at times apparently pitiless

who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations

the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong

520 Briefe und Karten) konnten im Nachlass Josephine von Knorrs (Privatbesitz) aufgefunden werden

The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself

Caged bird Finch will discover that the path to happiness is freedom

homeless people in the United States) that challenge the traditional boundaries of "the field

achieve goals

Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam

Der zeitliche Rahmen der Betrachtung reicht vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart

especially in murder cases

Theologiegeschichtlich lässt sich hier eine Entwicklungslinie ausmachen