When is a metonymy no longer a metonymy?

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 379-406

  Riemer, Nick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conventionalisation; Demarcation; Generalisation; Hyperbole; Metaphori sation; Metonymisation; Post metaphor; Post metonymy; Semantic extension; Understatement

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244258626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110219197.3.379     Document Type: Chapter

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