Unveiling the Language of Fear: an Analysis of Conceptual Metonymy and Metaphor in Algerian Arabic by Derki NOUREDDINE, Drissi OTMANE ABDELKADER, Boubaker MOHREM, Kaddour-Trea ASMAA & Messaoudi WALID

“…Results showed that fear conceptualized in Algerian Arabic is conceptualized using three figurative devices: metonym, metaphor, and metaphtonymy, with some similarities and differences with English. …”
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The Role of Metonymy in Teaching the Spanish Verbal System to L2/FL Learners of Spanish by Alejandro Castañeda Castro, Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado

“…We focus on tense uses that involve metonymic processes, particularly, the meaning extensions in two Spanish past tenses: (1) the actional meaning of stative verbs when conveyed in pretérito indefinido (preterit), as in Pudimos comprar la casa 'We could buy the house', metonymically extended to Compramos la casa 'We bought the house'; and (2) the distancing use (uso citativo) of pretérito imperfecto (imperfect) when referring to current facts, as in ¿Cómo te llamabas? …”
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A cognitive approach to the allegedly left-headed prefix verbs in German: by Heike Baeskow

“…It will be argued that nominal bases are metonymically reconceptualized as events inside the derivatives. …”
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Krakuś, radomek, warszewik i gdańskmen – uwagi o ekspresywnej potencji słowotwórczej wybranych nazw miast by Anna Pilińska

“…These lexemes, apart from their basic meaning, gained secondary meanings, often created as a result of metonymization, stereotyping, and the consolidation of negative associations or connotations. …”
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Aspects innovants des métonymies dans le discours quotidien de Brazzavillois by Arsène Elongo

“…This application aims to elucidate the discursive implications of metonymy in everyday conversation, seeking to verify how metonymic expressions illuminate the subjectivity, culture, and language proficiency of the speaker. …”
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Conceptualizations of head in Dholuo by Joseph Jaoko Ochieng

“…This article brings evidence from Dholuo that the head is conceptualized in various ways like metonymic head for hair, head for person, head for character traits, unit of measurement. …”
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ANTONOMASIA IN THE SHORT STORIES BY IVO ANDRIC by Davor Nikolić

“…This paper analyzed the gnomic and the anecdotal in Andrić’s novellas using the trope antonomasia. True or metonymic antonomasia substitutes the proper name by appellative, epithet or periphrasis whereas Vossian or metaphoric antonomasia substitutes certain trait by a proper name. …”
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Assimilation et transferts sémantiques des emprunts lexicaux dans le discours médiatique by Fatima Zohra Benmostefa Harig

“…Hijab, at least in this metonymic sense, denominates not a non-existent reality in France, but a new reality; the label of "xénisme" appears once in partially inadequate. …”
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What is an isogloss? by Johannes Kabatek

“… This short contribution discusses the term and concept of isogloss: the space where a linguistic phenomenon exists or, by metonymic extension, the line that separates a particular linguistic phenomenon from another. …”
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Liebe als Flucht: Metaphorische und allegorische Sinnschichten in Gertrud Leuteneggers Roman „Späte Gäste“ (2020) by Daniel Annen

“…Yet, this blocked door is interesting for its metaphorical and metonymical meaning, as it stands for the barrier between the narrator and her earlier partner. …”
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A linguistic analysis of the dominant axiological values in Moroccan drink brand names by María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos, Fatima Azahraa El Yamlahi

“…This paper aims to look into the most prominent axiological values in Moroccan  drink brand names and how they are introduced through cognitive operations such as comparison metaphors, correlation metaphors, domain expansion, domain reduction and metonymic chains. In addition, we will show the verbal or visual modes in which they are manifested. …”
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The Language of Linguistic Research: Is there Room for Meaning Extension? by Inesa Šeškauskienė

“…The paper is structured around several key issues: first, it gives background to the study, including a discussion on academic discourse, its relation to other discourse types, the contrastive parameter of investigation and other methodological issues and second, it identifies major types of metonymical and metaphorical extensions as reflected in the data corpus and manifested in linguistic texts in English (EN) and Lithuanian (LT).…”
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Self-identification of the lyrical subject in Russian poetry (a draft typology) by Andrey Anatolievich Faustov

“…These incarnations are: 1) ‘anonymous’ lyrical I referring directly to the real author; 2) lyrical I referring to the author through the prism of in-text heteronymic or metonymic transcoding; 2) lyrical character (lyrical hero) referring to the author through the prism of metaphoric transcoding; 3) role character (role hero) with zero reference to the author. …”
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Tsarskoye Selo text in Russian Poetry: Structure and dynamics by Olga Grinevich

“…The key mechanism of dynamics is the metonymic replacement of the whole (Tsarskoe Selo) with a part (imagesymbols associated with this place). …”
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