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.

Contents Acknowledgements Table of Figures Introduction Theoretical Framework and Historical Background Metonymy in Modern Figurative Theory Metonymy and Semiotics Metonymy and Text Cohesion Metonymy and Text Coherence Bibliography Index