Textual Metonymy: A Semiotic Approach

By Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a very full historical account of treatments of metonymy from classical traditions up to the present time is given and critiqued. The author proposes a semiotic approach to the treatment of metonymy, on the basis of which a textual model of metonymy as a process of representation is developed to account for text cohesion and text coherence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403913323
• ISBN13: 9781403913326
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.8"