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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 69, 2019
The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Issues of Linguistics and Didactics: The Interdisciplinary Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences” (CILDIAH-2019)
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| Article Number | 00044 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900044 | |
| Published online | 25 October 2019 | |
Is a metonymy always a metonymy? A speculation on taxonomical aspects of propositional metonymy and situational metonymy
North Caucasus Federal University, Humanities Institute,
355009,
1 Pushkin street,
Stavropol,
Russia
* Corresponding author:
nvgolovko@inbox.ru
Research efforts in cognitive linguistics are frequently focused on the notion of metaphor, while the notion of metonymy, as well as its taxonomical aspects, is not always thoroughly researched. A study of the most recent research papers in the English language has shown that metonymy is often interpreted in a broad fashion, incorporating several different types of cognitive processes and phenomena, so that a scholar becomes unable to distinguish them from each other and \ or is essentially forced to regard them as manifestations of the same phenomenon. A more taxonomically accurate approach is suggested, involving the use of the term “synecdoche” for affinity-related concept shifts and including a review of two subclasses of metonymy that have not yet received a considerable amount of attention – propositional metonymy and situational metonymy.
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