Stylistic Transformations as Means of Achieving Adequacy of Literary Translation (on Material of Muriel Spark’s Story “Portobello Road”) by O. G. Shevchenko

“…It is proved that the emotional and expressive vocabulary and the adjectives are stylistically transformed most often, transformations being: replacement (remetaphorization and metonymical transformations) and additions (metaphorization and phraseologization). …”
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The parable of the animus: The Prince with the Sad Eyes by Ahmetagić Jasmina M.

“…One cannot live with the animus, the archetypal figure responsible for falling in love: once a relationship becomes reality (sexuality is here a metonymic replacement for the whole of their real life, the reality of a relationship) all projections start disappearing and in most cases, are replaced with their negative counterpart, as archetypes are essentially dual in meaning. …”
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Definlaitions of the self, the Citizen and the state in contemporary Italy by Guy Lanoue

“…You have entered the Twilight Zone of Italian politics, the rhetorical dimension of ambiguity and of metonymic shifts that lead to political mythification in the Barthian sense.1 In this paper I will explore some aspects of the rhetorics of citizenship and of individual rights in the Italian context, arguing that State threats to individual rights do not emerge as a reaction to demands for political and moral legitimacy by ethnic minorities (the “progressive” position, as is sometimes asserted in the literature), nor as a repressive attempt to deal with the contamination of political spaces by persistent “cultural” traditions such as family, patronage, clientelism, corruption, etc. …”
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Ways of Semantic Derivation and Types of Relations between Meanings in Adjective Semantic Structure by M. V. Sandakova

“…The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the author sets the task of inventory and systematization of ways of semantic derivation of an adjective, among which metaphorical transfer, metonymic transfer, specialization of relations are distinguished. …”
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Specifics of the Verbs of the Emotional State Lexical Compatibility in Regional Prose by N. A. Starodubtseva, S. Yu. Kharchenko, T. V. Chernitsyna

“…The specific features of the lexical compatibility of the verbs of the emotional state in fiction are characterized: (1) violation of the usual lexical compatibility in cases when writers resort to a metonymic transference; (2) combinations with inanimate nouns denoting the bearer of an emotional state; (3) constructions with abstract nouns with emotive semantics; (4) combinations with adverb distributors that implement semantics uncharacteristic of them. …”
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Kognitív szemléletű névtudományi vizsgálatok by Katalin Reszegi

“…In the third part of the thesis, the author discusses four typical naming mechanisms concerning place names (metonymic naming, metaphorical naming, semantic split, and name formation by adding a formant) in a cognitive linguistic framework. …”
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Cognitive Mechanisms of Nominating Plants in English by Elena Shevchenko, Olga Prokhorova, Igor Chekulay

“…Having analyzed 200 names of herbs and flowers in English, the authors differentiated three cognitive models, which the phytonyms categorization is based on: metaphoric, metonymic and propositional. It is shown that "the codes of culture", or in other words, well-known realia, are used as sources for nomination; on their basis typical cognitive models are formed. …”
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'What's Cooking?'- Cookery and Creativity in The Mistress of Spices, Serving Crazy with Curry and Book of Rachel by Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri, Shweta Rao

“…The written text becomes analogous to the food prepared through culinary endeavours within the text. Thus, food gains I metonymic dimension and cookery is exalted to the echelon of creative writing. …”
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Var and Manəstən Adpositions in Gilaki Language by Elahe Hoseyni Matak, Ehsan Changizi

“…Var in Gilaki, is derived from varah in Avestan and war in Middle Persian (= chest). As the result of metonymic use of language, this word has got some meanings like "beside, with, by the side of …". …”
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Names of Military Operations: Motivation of Nomination (On the Material of French Military Texts) by Sergey M. Kravcov, Evgeniya A. Solovyova

“…It has been established that the source of motivation for the names of military operations can be historical and geographical facts, metaphorical or metonymic change of appellative vocabulary, and its symbolization. …”
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The state question in Chinese popular cultural studies by Wang, Jing

“…The metonymical association between 'China’ and 'revolution' is a rhetorical game savoured by contemporary China observers. …”
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The role of image schemas, conceptual metaphor and metonymy in structuring the conceptual field of sound in Turkish/Türkçede ses kavramsal alanının yapılandırılmasında imge şemalar... by Özay Önal

“…It is understood from the image schematic, conceptual metaphorical and metonymic patterns found in music and phonology texts that the components of the sound like pitch, amplitude and timbre; and the formations of it like melody, motion, path, interval, chord and scale are understood as abstract concepts that must be embodied as concrete entities by the human mind. …”
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Confucius in The Times from 1785 to 2019: a diachronic news discourse analysis of newsworthiness by Cheng Chen, Renping Liu

“…Second, the concepts of Confucius had been frequently metonymized for the national identity of Chinese, which dominantly framed the ordinariness of the Chinese people before 1880s, and gradually transformed into the elite Chinese identities after 1880s. …”
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Voices from the Borders. Feridun Zaimoglu’s <i>Kanaksprak</i> by Tiziana Urbano

“…So, the fluid border crossing of Kanak interstitial identity in the end crystallizes in a mimicry, in which both codes of behaviour and language structures become a metonymic representation of difference.…”
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The colourful causal construction. A corpus-based cross-linguistic analysis of its form and function in Dutch, English and French by Fiona Poncin, Kristel Van Goethem

“…All three languages share the same top three of lexical fillers in the colour slot, namely red, green and white, and the construction expresses a literal/metonymic meaning in approximately 50% of the cases across the three investigated languages. …”
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The professional linguistic identity of the football commentator Matt Law by N.I. Gatsura, N.N. Ruhl

“…The linguistic analysis of the professional linguistic identity of the sports commentator makes it possible to conclude that the verbal and semantic level consists of such lexical means as sports (general and professional) vocabulary, colloquial vocabulary, and such grammatical means as the present simple tense, elliptical and emphatic constructions, adverbial absolute constructions; cognitive – used in the sports discourse metaphoric model of “sport is war” with the corresponding slots, metonymic transfer associated with the use of proper names (the name of the country represents the team from that country); motivational – the use of evaluative vocabulary serving to express emotions and create a certain mood among the audience. …”
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Spreading Like a Virus: Conceptual Integration and Discourse Viewpoint in Internet Memes about the Covid-19 Pandemic by Adi Maslo, Sofia Kefalidou

“…We show that meme makers use visuals metonymically to address the current state of Covid-19 while the overall message of memes is driven by simile. …”
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Multimodal metaphor and metonymy in political cartoons as a means of country image construction by Shaoyang Guan, Yuhua Sun

“…The use of cognitive-discursive analysis allowed us to reveal the features of visual, verbal and conceptual interaction of metaphorical transfers and metonymic shifts in the construction of the positive image of China and the negative image of the United States. …”
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Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice” by Chantal Schütz

“…This paper examines the evolution from a metonymical relationship between the theatrical character and its representation by the singer Maria Malibran to a metaphorical relationship that actually substituted Malibran to Desdemona. …”
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Nuevos juguetes para un etnógrafo ansioso: derroteros del registro audiovisual by Agustina Pérez Rial, Cristina Voto

“…It is also the time in which ethnography goes hand by hand with colonialism, and cinema becomes a metonymic device of apprehension of the colonized space. …”
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