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1. The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.

2. In metonymic use an attribute or necessary adjunct of something is used as a symbolic object in place of the thing itself.

3. Metaphorical and metonymic sense extensions have their respective features.

4. This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.

5. To these ends, the paper argues that metonymic usage be examined within the overall framework of reference and analyzed in the light of cognitive pragmatics .

6. Metonymic expressions of emotional conception are mainly grounded in various physical sensations and bodily agitations.

7. People employ metonymic expressions to convey information and carry out communication, which dovetails the principle of least effort advocated by linguists.

8. It is politicians unconsciously grasp this metonymic strategy that they can handle adroitly the political matters.

9. Moreover, metaphorical and metonymic sense extensions have their respective mapping models.

10. Condensation, in other words, is metaphorical in its nature, and displacement is metonymic in its nature.

11. Guided by the cognitive theory, this thesis tries to make study of the metaphorical and metonymic expressions of emotions in Chinese language.

12. Filling in the narrative gap creates abundant opportunities for the reader to interpret the fiction and form their own fictional world on the basis of their metonymic thinking and reasoning.

13. The Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM) which contains stands-for relations is what we referred as metonymic models.

14. They also demonstrate that much of pragmatic inferencing is metonymic in nature and believed that indirect speech acts can be described in terms of metonymic models.

15. In cognitive linguistics, metonymy concepts are part of the ordinary, everyday way we think and act as well as talk, so we can apply metonymic thought to interpret anaphora in English texts.

16. Based on the cognitive linguistic construal of metonymy, this paper analyzes and exemplifies the metonymic nature of discourse titles that takes on two senses.

17. The interpretation of nominal tautology can be based on some concepts and theories in psychology and cognition, of which the most important are metonymic mapping, categorization and space mappings.

18. To say "He spent the evening reading Shakespeare" is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works.

19. Here, then, we have a metaphorical substitution on a metonymic axis.

20. We hold that conversion, as a language phenomenon existing both in English and Chinese, is the reflection of people's metonymic mode of thinking.sentence dictionary

21. The sexual features of plump breasts and round hips has become the metonymic symbol of the destiny of women.

22. From the cognitive perspective, the cognition of MCCs mainly relies upon the metonymic mechanism of SAs, with a MCC providing a felicity condition for the SA intended by the speaker.

23. There are four cognitive models of categorization: propositional model, image-schematic model, metaphoric model and metonymic model respectively.