ABSTRACT Metonymy is a pervasive linguistic/cognitive mechanism in everyday language. Still, studies assessing its comprehension are rare the literature. Our goal to present elaboration of verbal metonymy task Brazilian Portuguese as well test it using pilot studies. The was based on cognitive linguistics framework and psychometric guidelines were considered. construction considered psycholingu...

In this paper, we propose a frame-based approach to polysemy by analyzing three near-synonymous verbs biaoshi (表示), biaoda (表達) and biaolu (表露). Based on Liu and Wu (2004), this paper further discusses the cross-frame phenomena of near-synonyms with a detailed comparison of their syntactic and collocational patterns. It is shown that polysemy among related verbs may be well defined and manifest...

As scholars on organization, we have been confronting the challenges of a changing episteme. The arrival new coronavirus and its devastating pandemic compel us to ask what virus means for organization studies. essay contributes this endeavour by attending implication in (re)organization meaning explicating ways which metaphor metonymy enable one trace (re)organization. In doing so, it takes ins...

The national football team represents the nation and speaks for it. plays an important role in reproduction of identity nationalism. It is also used as a tool public diplomacy. managed by association, which autonomous from state authorities. Thanks to its dominant position, association can impose vision representation nation. However, selector not received passively. composition – aspect metony...

Based on psychological studies which show that metaphors and other non-literal constructions are comprehended in the same amount of time as comparable literal constructions, some researchers have concluded that literal meaning is not computed during comprehension of non-literal constructions. In this paper, we suggest that the empirical evidence does not rule out the possibility that literal me...