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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"metonymy"”.
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Metaphor, metonymy, language learning and translation
This thesis investigates the role of metonymy in communication, in creating text, in learner communication and in translation. I make the claim that metonymy, defined here as the ability to recognize part-whole relations between things, words and concepts, is the essential mechanism behind a whole …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… of poetic language by developing a theory of metonymy as a literary trope. After a critical assessment of available views on metonymy, the first part of the thesis sets out to explore and analyse the aesthetic status, structure and poetic function of metonymy on the basis of concrete literary …
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A discourse dynamics investigation of metonymy in talk
In marked contrast to metonymy research based on invented examples and intuitive judgments, this thesis presents a picture of metonymy in discourse derived from empirical analysis of authentic language. Using the discourse dynamics framework (Cameron 2010b), metonymy is investigated in a 17,889 …
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Metonymy and metaphor in the fiction of John Cheever
John Cheever has been categorized by critics as an American realist. This paper challenges that assumption through the use of Roman Jakobsen's distinction between metaphoric and metonymic writing. In Jakobsen's poetics, the metonymic and metaphoric poles are opposed. The former describes discourse …
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Expanding the figurative continuum to multimodal settings. Patterns of interaction of multimodal metaphor and metonymy in advertising
En la primera parte de esta tesis se establece un conjunto de criterios específicos para cuantificar la noción de complejidad conceptual y así poder clasificar y ordenar los patrones de interacción entre la metáfora y la metonimia en entornos multimodales a lo largo de un eje creciente de …
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Hunting Down Animal Verbs
… and employs the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory (CMMT) to untangle the intricacies of the semantic change making the grammatical change of animal nouns into verbs possible and acceptable in the minds of English speakers. To this end, this study employed the Oxford English …
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The Live Action Role-Playing Game the Masquerade as an Organizational Culture: an Ethnographic Study of the Game's Organizational Symbolism
… players of The Masquerade utilized the device of metonymy as a symbolic form indicating ways in which they communicate their characters' experiences in the game. Additional inquiry into the nature of metaphor and metonymy, and their functions within the game's culture, demonstrated the multiple …
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The role of language in the process of creating meaning in a professional organisation
… from these relationships, i. e. metaphor and metonymy, provided an early trajectory for further data interpretation. Naturally occurring talk, including organisational stories, talk as recorded in meetings, artifacts including written texts, buildings, equipment and geographical arrangements …
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Visual variations of violence – The metonymic framing of violence in the featured images of online news about Africa
… counterparts. Although the ubiquity of (verbal) metonymy logically implies the frequent occurrence of nonverbal manifestations, visual metonymies have so far been pushed into the background behind verbal counterparts (Benczes, 2019). This does not mean that there is no discourse on visual …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
… the role of re-construal based on metaphor and metonymy is essential for the understanding of grammatical phenomena cross-linguistically. Behind the distinctive aspects of constructional organization in each language we have found consistent typological features, which are motivated by cognitive …
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Human Theatre
… it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of the passage of time, explore the philosophy of life, express desire, absence, complex, and the thought of Self, and try to find the combination of sensibility and reason with poetic narration methods, …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… devices such as allusions, parody, metaphor, metonymy, juxtaposition, and exaggeration take a form which is woven between the visual and verbal modes and which sometimes makes the production of humorous and satirical effect more unique and interesting. The analysis of metaphor and metonymy …
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Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric.
… of an alteration from a poetics of metaphor to metonymy and a conceptual alteration of transcendence from a vertical to a horizontal plane. I argue that the 'Catullan Consciousness' did not fully emerge until the poetry of Philip Sidney. So, my work brings together a number of strands of thought …
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
… various stylistic devices such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, hyperbole, and epithet. Understanding the prevalence and usage of lexical stylistic devices in modern American literature is crucial for comprehending the depth and richness of literary works. While previous studies …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
… didacticism and the development of colonial metonymy in Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em>, the way metaphor operates through time in Edward Bellamy’s <em>Looking Backward: 2000-1887</em>, and utopian colonialism as a central incoherence in the utopian imaginary. Ultimately, this paper argues for …
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To see the world in its thusness: A reading of Gary Snyder's later poetry
… Roman Jakobsen's account of metaphor and metonymy, and a model of metaphor as semantic transfer proposed by Eva Kittay and Adrienne Lehrer. The title of the thesis points to the conclusions which my work proposes. Snyder's later poetry suggests that our existence may be sanctified in an …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… figures checked for this thesis are metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification and hyperbole. |The figures checked were listed in the order in which they occur in each chapter. No attempt was made to group them according to their content. |The sentences In many instances are long, so phrases …
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Modelling Metaphorical Extension
… either connected to another sense by metaphor or metonymy, or is disconnected in the case of homonymy. WordNet senses have preexisting links to grounded information that captures their meaning, including images and textual examples. ChainNet identifies which of these senses are metaphorical, and …
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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
… utilization of traditional tropes of metaphor, metonymy, and irony, establish him as a conservative and Romantic writer of place concerned with the friction between traditional agrarian values and the demands of late-twentieth-century urban/technological existence. Sequentially, Graves's three …
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics
… so as to conjoin them. Disambiguation, metaphor, metonymy, context-sensitivity and "Garden-Path" behaviour are only some of the many natural parts of this process. Anomalies are detected and many methods are outlined to resolve them. Part 2 of this book describes how the superimposition process …
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