Futile Pursuits of Metonymic Targets in Political and Legal Contexts

This article explores problematic aspects of metonymic target identification in specialist language. Searching for and establishing metonymic targets has been the goal of numerous studies pursued in cognitive linguistics. Not infrequently, one may get the impression that the deliberate refinement of...

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Main Author: Piotr Twardzisz
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1450