Putting Metonymy in its Place

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy
5. Towards a Theory of Metonymy 17
6. Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy 61
7. Metonymy and Conceptual Integration 77
8. Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche 91
9. Aspects of Referential Metonymy 121
10. Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy
11. frame and Cognity 139
12. Co-presence and Succession 169
13. Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts 193
14. Metonymy in Onomastics 211
15. Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy
16. Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy 233
17. Putting Metonymy in its Place 255
18. Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata 275
19. Opposition as a Metonymic Principle 289
20. Metonymic Hierarchies 309
21. The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian 333
22. Part IV: Applications of Metonymy
23. “Mummy, I like being a sandwich” 361
24. Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison’s Song of Solomon 385
25. List of Contributors 401
26. Subject index 405
27. Author index 413
28. Metonymy and metaphor index 419