On Some Pragmatic Effects of Event Metonymies.
In the literature, event metonymies have been used to explain how language users produce and interpret utterances in which certain events are understood in terms of their sub-events or the overall/complex events they are a part of. This paper attempts to discuss some pragmatic effects of event meton...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 266 - 285 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct-Dec2020
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