Jeannette Littlemore

Metonymy (eBook, PDF)

Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication

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Produktbeschreibung

'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. Using authentic data throughout, this book shows how metonymy operates, not just in language, but also in gesture, sign language, art, music, film and advertising. It explores the role of metonymy in cross-cultural communication, along with the challenges it presents to language learners and translators. Ideal for researchers and students in linguistics and literature, as well as teachers and general readers interested in the art of communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316236369
• Artikelnr.: 52966554

Autorenporträt

Jeannette Littlemore is a Reader in Applied Linguistics and Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. 'What those boys need is a good handbagging'. What is
metonymy?; 2. 'He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all
over the place'. Types of metonymy and their behaviour in real-world data;
3. 'He's only bowing to his passport'. Theoretical models of metonymy: uses
and drawbacks; 4. ''BBC', her mother would have said'. What do people use
metonymy for?; 5. 'But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears
silk underpants?'. Playful, evaluative and creative functions of metonymy;
6. 'The Government of Britain is sort of there'. How can we identify
'metonymy'?; 7. 'I found Robbie Williams in the lounge'. How is metonymy
processed in the mind?; 8. 'He started as nobody from Austria'.
Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation in metonymy: implications for
language learning and translation; 9. 'These huts did absolutely
unbelievable work'. What do we now know about metonymy?