Study on the Phenomenon of Metonymy in Cantonese from the Cognitive Perspective

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.083How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cantonese references, referential metonymy, metonymic thinking

Abstract

Different from those in Mandarin Chinese, some references in Cantonese adopt metonymy. From the perspective of cognition, this paper takes the conceptual metonymy as the analytical framework to analyze the typical metonymic references in Cantonese, so as to illustrate the penetration of metonymy thinking in various languages used by people.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Cuiyan Lan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Study on the Phenomenon of Metonymy in Cantonese from the Cognitive Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 417
EP  - 420
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.083
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.083
ID  - Lan2020
ER  -