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From the author: To provide a context for the essays published here. this introduction to the special issue on metonymy highlights a number of aspects of the cognitive-linguistic discussion of metonymy of the past twenty-five years. It briefly sketches the development of metonymy studies in poetics, linguistics, and philosophy, emphasizing that the cognitive-linguistic approach to metonymy of the past decades represents a return to the semantic views of metonymy advocated in structuralist semantics. This development was triggered by the extensive study of metaphor, but metonymy has now emancipated itself as an autonomous field of study that displays complex and unresolved relations with metaphor. This introduction also attends to the new insights added by cognitive linguistics to such a semantic approach to metonymy, suggesting that metonymy has indeed gone cognitive linguistic.

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Title: Metonymy goes cognitive-linguistic.(Critical essay)
Author: Gerard Steen
Publication:Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 39 Issue: 1 Page: 1(12)

Article Type: Critical essay

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