Salience factors determining natural metonymic clippings illustrated through the medical lexicon

After briefly reviewing the cognitive-linguistic notions of metonymy and constructional form adhered to by the author (A) and discussing the general grammatical notion of clipping and A’s notion of “natural metonymic clipping”, the paper presents the list of salience factors whose combination determ...

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Main Author: Antonio Barcelona Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2017-01-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:https://revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/143