Book contents
- Metonymy
- Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘What those boys need is a good handbagging’
- 2 ‘He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all over the place’
- 3 ‘He’s only bowin’ to his passport’
- 4 ‘“BBC”, her mother would have said’
- 5 ‘But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears silk underpants?’
- 6 ‘The Government of Britain is sort of there’
- 7 ‘I found Robbie Williams in the lounge’
- 8 ‘He started as nobody from Austria’
- 9 ‘These huts did absolutely unbelievable work’
- References
- Index
6 - ‘The Government of Britain is sort of there’
How can we identify ‘metonymy’?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
Book contents
- Metonymy
- Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘What those boys need is a good handbagging’
- 2 ‘He coughed and spluttered a lot and sneezed his lunch all over the place’
- 3 ‘He’s only bowin’ to his passport’
- 4 ‘“BBC”, her mother would have said’
- 5 ‘But what can we expect, after all, of a man who wears silk underpants?’
- 6 ‘The Government of Britain is sort of there’
- 7 ‘I found Robbie Williams in the lounge’
- 8 ‘He started as nobody from Austria’
- 9 ‘These huts did absolutely unbelievable work’
- References
- Index
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- MetonymyHidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication, pp. 123 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015