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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing Klaus-Uwe Panther,Linda L. Thornburg In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in… OL19887855W
Language change Language change Aitchison, Jean This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers… OL2750962W