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The Cognitive Nature of Metonymy and Its Implications for English Vocabulary Teaching
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Guan, Jialing – English Language Teaching, 2009
Metonymy is an important means for people to know the world and enrich the language; and it is a way of thinking used widely in people's daily life. This paper illustrates firstly the cognitive nature of metonymy in terms of its definition, classification and contiguity notion. Based on this, the author then studies the meaning extension and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development