Metonymy is a creative process that establishes relationships based on contiguity or semantic relatedness between concepts. We outline a mechanism for deriving new concepts from WordNet using metonymy. We argue that by exploiting polysemy in WordNet we can take advantage of the metonymic relations between concepts. The focus of our metonymy generation work has been the creation of nounnoun comp...

as a one of the most important figures of speech among linguistic phenomena, metonymy is considered to be a factor involved in understanding the meaning of the speaker's intention correctly, hence it is frequently investigated from various aspects of literature, principles of jurisprudence and theology. ibn jinni was a famous grammarian and linguist in the 4th century a.h (10th century ad) who ...

The present work aims to highlight the female image in Chinese proverbs, from cognitive perspective based on theory of metaphor and metonymy Lakoff Johnson (1986), a corpus more than two hundred examples analyzed, assessing their physical appearance, vices virtues, status family life, which cultural world has created around them. resultsof study allow following conclusions: 1) exist great discr...

Previous research in cognitive semantics has focused on various mechanisms of ‘dynamic’ meaning construction, like metaphor, metonymy, conceptual integration, irony and sarcasm. The present paper aims at broadening the scope of analysis to include the largely underfranchised topic of humor (in the broadest sense) in the cognitive paradigm. In a first section of the paper, it is argued that Crof...

We investigate the compositional properties of metonymy through self-paced reading (SPR) and ERP. We examine lexical metonymy (Novel producer-for-product: All freshmen read/meet Wickstrom) and circumstantial/pragmatic metonymy (A waitress says to another: “Table-13/That couple asked for more wine”). We test the hypothesis that both metonymic types are instantiated by the same interpretive mecha...

In this article we outline a basic approach to treating metonymy properly in a multilingual machine translation system. This is the first attempt at treating metonymy in an machine translation environment. The approach is guided by the differences of acceptability of metonymy which were obtained by our comparative survey among three languages, English, Chinese, and Japanese. The characteristics...

P may grind their teeth, chagrin and impatience coursing through their arteries with the above commonplace metaphoric declarations. These declarations pervade what may go down on record as the hottest summer (2012) since weather records have been kept. I won’t concern myself with teasing apart various metaphoric cousins (most commonly, simile, metonymy and personification) on the grounds that a...

Recent advances in language technologies in areas such as information extraction (MUC1), question answering (TREC2), and summarization (DUC3) have explored extensively the power of statistical NLP in the age of ready availability of large, annotated datasets. Groundbreaking efforts of organizers of these and other continued shared tasks in the spirit of shared resources drive to make developed ...

The aim of this paper is to study the metonymic motivation of the conduit metaphor. Following the radical hypothesis presented by Barcelona (2003) – that every metaphor is motivated by conceptual metonymy −, the metonymic structure of the target domain communication is analyzed. Two metonymies are identified as conceptual prerequisites for the metaphorical mapping communication is sending ideas...