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  150302s2015 us b 001 eng

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  ▼a  9781107043626:
  ▼c  \131680

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  ▼l  EM0000237661

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  ▼a  Littlemore, Jeannette.

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  ▼a  Metonymy:
  ▼b  hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication/
  ▼d  Jeannette Littlemore.

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  ▼a  New York:
  ▼b  Cambridge University Press,
  ▼c  2015.

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  ▼a  xi,227 pages;
  ▼c  24 cm.

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  ▼a  Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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  ▼a  Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'What those boys need is a good handbagging'. What is metonymy?; 2. 'He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all over the place'. Types of metonymy and their behaviour in real-world data; 3. 'He's only bowing to his passport'. Theoretical models of metonymy: uses and drawbacks; 4. ''BBC', her mother would have said'. What do people use metonymy for?; 5. 'But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears silk underpants?'. Playful, evaluative and creative functions of metonymy; 6. 'The Government of Britain is sort of there'. How can we identify 'metonymy'?; 7. 'I found Robbie Williams in the lounge'. How is metonymy processed in the mind?; 8. 'He started as nobody from Austria'. Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation in metonymy: implications for language learning and translation; 9. 'These huts did absolutely unbelievable work'. What do we now know about metonymy?.

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  ▼a  Metonyms

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  ▼a  Metaphor

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  ▼a  Figures of speech

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  ▼a  단행본

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  ▼a  808.032
  ▼b  L779m