Remetonymizing metaphor: Hypercategories in semantic extension

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 379-401

  Riemer, Nick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

conventionalization; hypermetaphor; hypermetonymy; metaphor; metonymy; semantic extension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937337256     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2002.008     Document Type: Article

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