Centuries of rhetorical and literary studies have strongly been influencing the cognitive understanding of metonymy. Many different classifications of tropes have been proposed. Some subsume metonymy and synecdoche un...Centuries of rhetorical and literary studies have strongly been influencing the cognitive understanding of metonymy. Many different classifications of tropes have been proposed. Some subsume metonymy and synecdoche under metaphor while the other classify it under synecdoche. The paper overviews the main researches on metonymy in west countries and in China since 1980s from cognitive perspective.展开更多
文摘Centuries of rhetorical and literary studies have strongly been influencing the cognitive understanding of metonymy. Many different classifications of tropes have been proposed. Some subsume metonymy and synecdoche under metaphor while the other classify it under synecdoche. The paper overviews the main researches on metonymy in west countries and in China since 1980s from cognitive perspective.