Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics

List of contributors

vii-viii
Introduction
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

1-6
Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy
Antonio Barcelona

7-58
Part I. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena

Metonymization: A key mechanism in semantic change
Carita Paradis

61-88
Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy
Dirk Geeraerts and Yves Peirsman

89-102
Metonymy and cognitive operations
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

103-124
Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy
Anu Koskela

125-146
Metonymy at the crossroads: A case of euphemisms and dysphemisms
Tanja Gradecak-Erdeljic and Goran Milic

147-166
The role of metonymy in complex tropes: Cognitive operations and pragmatic implications
Javier Herrero Ruiz

167-194
Part II. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks

Putting the notion of "domain" back into metonymy: Evidence from compounds
Réka Benczes

197-216
What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy?
Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar

217-248
Metonymic matrix domains and multiple formations in indirect speech acts
Xianglan Chen

249-268
Authors' biodata

269-274
Metaphor and metonymy index

275-276
Name index

277-279
Subject index

281-284