Metonymy : Hidden Shortcuts in language, thought and communication
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 24054945
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107043626
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- In this 97,000-word monograph, Littlemore explores metonymy from a wide range of perspectives (linguistic, psychological, literary, functional and epistemological and cross-linguistic). Through a complex, multi-layered analysis, Littlemore provides new and critical insights into how metonymy should be defined, how it is processed, how it can be distinguished from metaphor and literal language, the affordances that it offers for creativity, and how its use varies across different languages. This is a significant, long-form monograph demonstrating sustained and complex research, representing the cumulation of years of highly original and rigorous thinking and research on this important topic.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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