Title: Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing
Description: In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars wor.
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, Pragmatique, Linguistic change, Changement linguistique, Inference, Speech acts (Linguistics), Congresses, Pragmatics, Metonyms, Sociolinguistics, Congrès, Métonymie, Inférence (Logique), Actes de parole