Textual Metonymy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 1-4

3. Theoretical Framework and Historical Background

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 5-34

4. Metonymy in Modern Figurative Theory

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 35-79

5. Metonymy and Semiotics

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 80-108

6. Metonymy and Text Cohesion

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 109-135

7. Metonymy and Text Coherence

   • Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

   Pages 136-183

8. Back Matter

   Pages 184-226

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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.

• coherence
• cohesion
• semiotics

ABDUL GABBAR AL-SHARAFI completed his PhD at the University of Durham before taking up a lectureship at the English Teaching Unit, University of Qatar.

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