INTRODUCTION
0.1. Metonymy: from ‘trope’ to ‘cognitive tool’
0.2. Lacunae in contemporary accounts of metonymy and need for further research
0.3. Research objectives
0.4. A note on methodology
CHAPTER 1: DEFINING METONYMY
1.1. Distinguishing metaphor from metonymy
1.2. Metonymy and the notion of ‘domain’
1.3. The metaphor-metonymy continuum
1.4. Classifying metaphor from different perspectives
1.5. Criteria for a definition of metonymy
1.5.1. Distinguishing metonymy from metaphor
1.5.2. The boundary between metonymy and literal uses of language
1.5.3. Nature and scope of the notion of ‘matrix domain’
1.5.4. Domains and subdomains: the relevance of ‘domain highlighting’
1.6. Conceptual interaction between metaphor and metonymy
CHAPTER 2: METONYMY AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
2.1. Classifying metonymy
2.2. Predicates
2.3. Recategorization of nominal and verbal predicates
2.4. Valency extension and valency reduction
2.5. Argument structure
2.6. The predication
2.7. Modality
2.8. Anaphoric reference
CHAPTER 3: THE COMMUNICATIVE IMPORT OF METONYMY
3.1. The role of metonymy in explicature derivation
3.2. Metonymy and indirect speech acts
3.3. Illocution-oriented presuppositional constructions
CONCLUSION
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