Textual Metonymy: A Semiotic Approach

Al-Sharafi, A.

Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a very full historical account of treatments of metonymy from classical traditions up to the present time is given and critiqued. The author proposes a semiotic approach to the treatment of metonymy, on the basis of which a textual model of metonymy as a process of representation is developed to account for text cohesion and text coherence.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-01-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403913326

DOI: 10.1057/9781403938909

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 226