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Textual Metonymy

A Semiotic Approach

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  • © 2004

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  1. Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Textual Metonymy

  • Book Subtitle: A Semiotic Approach

  • Authors: Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403938909

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1332-6Published: 20 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-3890-9Published: 20 January 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 226

  • Topics: Semiotics, Semantics, Stylistics

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