Schumacher, Petra B. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-8502
(2019).
Metonymy.
In:
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics,
pp. 315-330.
Abstract
This chapter addresses metonymy, an operation that is used to refer to an entity by means of an expression that has a particular semantic or conceptual relation to that entity (e.g. ‘the ham sandwich’ referring to a customer at a restaurant or ‘the wooden turtle’ referring to an object on a shelf). It discusses different types and communicative functions of metonymy and delineates it from other referential ambiguities such as homonymy and polysemy. The chapter reviews experimental evidence from real-time processing, acquisition, and language disorder and illustrates that discrete cognitive processes are involved in the constitution of extended meanings. It presents a classification of referential ambiguities based on neurocognitive profiles and suggests that the different types of ambiguities may be linked to the diachronic development of meaning alternations.
| Item Type: | Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-376913 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.013.25 | ||||||||
| Title of Book: | The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 315-330 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I | ||||||||
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics | ||||||||
| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37691 |
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