Verbs such as enjoy in the student enjoyed the book exhibit logical metonymy: enjoy is interpreted as enjoy reading. Theoretical work (Pustejovsky, 1991, 1995) predicts that this interpretation can be influenced by intra-sentential context, e.g., by the subject of enjoy. In this article, we test this prediction using a completion experiment and find that the interpretation of a metonymic verb i...

in the persian eloquence, the imagination forms mainly comprise simile and metaphor. however, metonymy and irony as well are discussed under the same title. although in persian eloquence, rhetoric discusses such four important subjects, it is somewhat different in the western eloquence. the present study deals in brief with these four subjects. although the word metonymy can be considered as th...

Current approaches to metonymy recognition are mainly supervised, relying heavily on the manual annotation of training and test data. This forms a considerable hindrance to their application on a wider scale. This dissertation therefore aims to relieve the knowledge acquisition bottleneck with respect to metonymy recognition by examining knowledge-lean approaches that reduce this need for human...

The Prophetic Hadith (i.e. sayings of the Prophet) is full rhetoric devices present throughout His sayings. One basic rhetorical metonymy. Metonymy a pervasive linguistic phenomenon in all cultures, both spoken and written discourse. This paper investigates metonymy Arabic language its translation general assessing Kināyah ᶜan mawṣūƒ (metonymy modified object) Khan’s (1997) Ṣaḥiḥ Al-Bukhārῑ par...

This paper describes a statistical approach to tile interpretat ion of metonymy. A metonymy is received as an input, then its possible interp retations are ranked by al)t)lying ~ statistical measure. The method has been tested experimentally. It; correctly interpreted 53 out of 75 metonymies in Jat)anese. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Metonymy is a figure of st)eech in which tile name of one thing ...

The aim of this paper is to propose a method for tagging named entities (NE), using natural language processing techniques. Beyond their literal meaning, named entities are frequently subject to metonymy. We show the limits of current NE type hierarchies and detail a new proposal aiming at dynamically capturing the semantics of entities in context. This model can analyze complex linguistic phen...

Within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics both metonymy and metaphor are seen as pervasive phenomena in thought and language. They are, however, different conceptualizations of experience. Metaphorization, such as ‘Love is a journey’, involves the mapping between a source and a target in different ontological domains. Metaphorization is based on a relation of configurational sameness (PATH)...

We propose a distinction between two kinds of metonymy: "referential" metonymy, in which the referent of an NP is shifted, and "predicative" metonymy, in which the referent of the NP is unchanged and the argument place of the predicate is shifted instead. Examples are, respectively, "The hamburger is waiting for his check" and "Which airlines fly from Boston to Denver". We also show that compli...