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Metonymy
Littlemore Jeannette
edizioni Cambridge Univ Pr collana Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2015
"'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' areall examples of metonymic language and serve a wide range of communicative...