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Metonymy goes cognitive-linguistic.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... 1. From Structuralist Semantics to Cognitive Linguistics
When Roman Jakobson pulled metaphor and metonymy to the center of the stage in linguistics and poetics, structuralists were trying to account for meaning by means of a componential...
Expressivity and metonymic inferencing: stylistic variation in nonliterary language use.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... 1. Introduction
In line with its central interest in metaphor and metonymy as prominent principles of categorization, cognitive linguistics focuses primarily on everyday language. This empirical orientation is enhanced by the repeated...
Who are the bridge-builders? Metaphor, metonymy, and the architecture of empire.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... 1. Introduction
Rudyard Kipling is remembered not just as an author but as a spokesperson for an era. Perhaps because of his dual status, literary scholars tend to treat Kipling's aesthetics and his imperialism as two separate domains....
The definition of metonymy in ancient Greece.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... Examining here the definitions of metonymy in the ancient Greek rhetorical tradition will involve, first, a brief review of ancient Greek rhetoric, in particular its main representatives, its main arguments, purposes, and methods, and its basic...
A corpus linguistic perspective on the relationship between metonymy and metaphor.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2005... 1. Introduction
In the 2002 special issue of Style on metaphor, several writers discuss the importance of embodiment in metaphor. For instance, Raymond Gibbs and Nicole Wilson discuss a number of idioms involving lexis for parts of the...
Thomas Carper and Derek Attridge. Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Thomas Carper and Derek Attridge. Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 156 pp. $78.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.
Thomas Carper is an award-winning metrical poet, and Derek Attridge is a pillar...
Steven G. Kellman. Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... Steven G. Kellman. Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xix + 339 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
In Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their...
John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack, eds. Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study.(Book review)
March 22, 2005... John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack, eds. Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 333 pp. $55.00 cloth.
As the volume under review demonstrates, Family Systems Therapy...
Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2005... Bohn, Willard. Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry, and Architecture. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. $50.00 cloth.
Cassidy, Marsha F. What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s. Austin: U of Texas P,...