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Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition
By Jeannette (University of Birmingham) Littlemore
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'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide range of communicative functions, such as textual cohesion, humour, irony, euphemism and hyperbole - all of which play a key role in the development of language and discourse communities...Show more
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ISBN
9781107043626
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published year
2015
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Edition
1
Original title
Cambridge Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Format
Hardcover
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