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Schumacher, Petra B. ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-8502 (2019). Metonymy. In: The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, pp. 315-330.

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Abstract

This chapter addresses metonymy, an operation that is used to refer to an entity by means of an expression that has a particular semantic or conceptual relation to that entity (e.g. ‘the ham sandwich’ referring to a customer at a restaurant or ‘the wooden turtle’ referring to an object on a shelf). It discusses different types and communicative functions of metonymy and delineates it from other referential ambiguities such as homonymy and polysemy. The chapter reviews experimental evidence from real-time processing, acquisition, and language disorder and illustrates that discrete cognitive processes are involved in the constitution of extended meanings. It presents a classification of referential ambiguities based on neurocognitive profiles and suggests that the different types of ambiguities may be linked to the diachronic development of meaning alternations.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schumacher, Petra B. petra.schumacher@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0003-0263-8502 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-376913
DOI:	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.013.25
Title of Book:	The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Page Range:	pp. 315-330
Date:	2019
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37691