The power of metonymy in humour: stretching contiguous relations across different layers of meaning
This paper is grounded in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), which sees metonymy as a conceptual phenomenon, in which one conceptual entity (the source) provides mental access to another entity (the target) within the same conceptual domain (Radden & Kövecses 1999), as opposed to metaphor, which is see...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2015-09-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/89 |