The role of metonymy in complex tropes: Cognitive operations and pragmatic implications

Human Cognitive Processing

Volumn 28, Issue , 2011, Pages 167-194

  Ruiz, Javier Herrero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cognitive operations; figure of speech; Idealized Cognitive Model (icm); pragmatic implication; trope

Indexed keywords

EID: 85190596818     PISSN: 13876724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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