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April 19, 2026Cognitive Linguistic StudiesOpen Access

Metonymy in pragmatic inferencing in a sample of English and Spanish spoken and written texts

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ABAntonio BarcelonaBMBeatriz Martín-GascónILInés Lozano-Palacio

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Overview

This analysis shows how metonymy guides pragmatic inferencing in English and Spanish texts, suggesting its essential role in communication.

Key Points

  • The aim is to examine how metonymy influences pragmatic inferencing in both English and Spanish discourse.
  • Compiled corpora from spoken and written texts in Spanish and English.
  • Analyzed instances of metonymy guiding pragmatic inferences.
  • Identified various figurative language forms like irony and hyperbole.
  • Compared findings across both linguistic contexts.
  • Metonymy significantly guides implicatures and indirect speech acts in analyzed texts.
  • Identified instances demonstrating extended roles of metonymy beyond existing theories.
  • Showed that metonymy contributes to discourse coherence, both relational and referential.

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Barcelona et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e47376010ef96374d8f4d1https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00140.bar
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