Semantic Production as a Way of Forming Legal Concepts (Based on Russian Laws) by M. V. Batyushkina

“…The research featured legal terms formed according to the semantic method, e.g. semantic generalization, expansion / narrowing of meaning, institutional specification, metonymic or metaphorical transfer, their correlation, etc. …”
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The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study by Chia-Hsin Yin, Fan-Pei Gloria Yang

“…This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin–English bilinguals’ minds. …”
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Cognitive precision and expressiveness in stock market communication : a contrastive perspective by Duda, Bozena, Nycz, Krzysztof

“…Another objective is to present precision and expressiveness in stock market communication achieved through the use of figurative (metaphorical and metonymic) means. In particular, we conducted a qualitative analysis of selected metonymic and metaphorical expressions in three different languages (English, German and Polish) extracted from stock market reports and commentaries. …”
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The Role of Metonymy in Shaping the Advertising Worldview (Based on the Appliance and Electronics Advertisements) by A. A. Gaynutdinova

“…A number of examples were provided to show that the knowledge about the components of the advertising situation is arranged in the categories of different conceptual structures which determine the type of metonymic transfer. In appliance advertisements, the most frequent metonymic models were found to be as follows: the product’s quality–the product, the result of using the product–the tool employed to achieve the result, describing the situation through the nomination of the stage of turning on the device or achieving the result. …”
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BIBLICAL IMAGES-SYMBOLS IN FRANK PERETTI’S MYSTICAL THRILLERS: LINGUAL REPRESENTATION AND PRAGMATIC VALUE by Polina S. Khabotniakova, Vira H. Nikonova

“…Metaphoric are classified according to their structure (onecomponent and multi-component), their stylistic characteristics (language and speech metaphoric linguistic representants of the biblical image-symbols), and their denotative meaning (anthropomorphic, naturalmorphic, zoomorphic, and phytomorphic). Metonymic are differentiated according to the kinds of the metonymic transference of meaning into four groups: metonymy of belonging, metonymy of place, metonymy of signs, and metonymy of phenomenon.…”
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Les métaphores comestibles dans les rituels mexicains by Danièle Dehouve

“…Difrasismos, often considered to be linguistic techniques typical of ritual mesoamerican speeches, are considered here to be particular cases of « definition by extension », which forms « metonymical series ». The ritual dishes are analysed as material and eatable difrasismos which first of all represent a metonymical technique, and constitute the basis of metaphorsRitual food.…”
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Las metáforas comestibles en los rituales mexicanos by Danièle Dehouve

“…Difrasismos, often considered to be linguistic techniques typical of ritual mesoamerican speeches, are considered here to be particular cases of « definition by extension », which forms « metonymical series ». The ritual dishes are analysed as material and eatable difrasismos which first of all represent a metonymical technique, and constitute the basis of metaphors.…”
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L’odeur de l’axé by Arnaud Halloy

“…I suggest three theoretical claims: the hypothesis of the metonymic function of smells (Howes 1987), i.e. that the very nature of smell—their liminal, intangible and evolutive character, as well as their privileged link to emotions—redouble at the experiential level the rituals’ symbolic function of transformation; the hypothesis of an “olfactive evaluative conditioning” (Zucco 2013) at the heart of the metonymic function of smells; the existence of olfactive practices and “styles,” which are constitutive elements of collective identities in Afro-Brazilian religions.…”
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What can Verbal Derivation Tell us about Proper Names? by Aurélie Héois

“…The analysis finds that the number of metonymic processes at stake during denominal verbal derivation depends on the type of the base, and that verbs originating from proper names need an extra cognitive step during verbal derivation. …”
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Mind, Body, and Metaphor in Ancient Greek Concepts of Emotion by Douglas Cairns

“…The characteristic symptoms, physiological changes, expressions, and behaviours associated with the emotions typically become metonyms for the emotions themselves and are represented in cognitive metaphors that form part of a culture’s conceptual model of emotion. …”
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Animal Phenomenology: Metonymy and Sardonic Humanism in Kafka and Merleau-Ponty by Don Beith

“…Maurice Merleau-Ponty takes inspiration from Franz Kafka’s metonymic animal literature to develop his concepts of <i>institution</i> and “sardonic humanism.” …”
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Gezi’nin Dili: Göstergebilimsel Bir İnceleme / The Language of Taksim Gezi Park Protests: A Semiotic Review by Ahmet GÜVEN

“…Transformation from metaphoric to metonymic plane is a suitable key to read social movements and change.…”
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Vízrajzi köznevek ómagyar kori településnevekben by Ferenc Bíró

“…On the one hand, the geographical characteristics of metonymical name giving (a typical method of place-name formation in Hungarian) are presented by the author; on the other hand, the functional and lexical structures of hydronyms missing from other sources are identified in the paper. …”
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The ancestral image in the present tense by Morton, C

“…Drawing on archival research and fieldwork in West and South Australia, this paper presents a number of examples of the metonymic ‘presence in absence’ (Runia 2006: 6) of the past through photography that indigenous people experience when connecting with archival imagery.…”

The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation by Richard Huyghe, Lucie Barque, François Delafontaine, Justine Salvadori

“…The first experiment collects speakers’ judgements about the sameness of meaning between different uses of complex-type, metonymic and monosemous words. The second experiment uses a priming paradigm and a sensicality task to investigate the online processing of complex-type words, as opposed to metonymic and monosemous words. …”
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On Monstrosity of Metaphor in Cognitive Paradigm by Khazagerov Georgy Georgievich

“…The resistance of metaphor to critical analysis depends on metonymical component of metaphor. Metonymy itself is more dangerous means of propaganda than metaphor.…”
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Figurative motion events in naive conceptualization of death by D. Yu. Shidlovskaya

“…As the result, different metaphorical, metonymical and metaphtonimical models of knowledge representation are extracted. …”
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Metaphorisation and Metonimisation as Tools of Semantic Derivation (Based on English Coursebooks on Economics) by S. P. Anokhina

“…The tendency to the uniform secondary semiotic code in term metaphor description can be viewed as another valid peculiarity of economic discourse.With regard to the indicative secondary nomination, the main findings are as follows: the metonymic lexis is organized as a chain opposition: terms and nomens – terms – terms and common lexis – common lexis. …”
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Pan Pan Theatre Aesthetics by Noelia Ruiz (University College Dublin – Dublin, Irlanda)

“…This paper explores Michael Kirby’s continuum between non-matrixed performance and complex acting, with regard to Pan Pan Theatre’s performance style, which enhances a particular conception of time and space as metonymic. …”
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Ex Anniana Milonis domo : les syntagmes nominaux avec deux compléments de possession by Olga Spevak

“…The examples collected make it possible to determine the conditions of use of such complex noun phrases as well as competing means of expression, in particular, metonymical constructions.…”
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