Understanding Metonymies in Discourse (2002) - Katja Markert
- Language Technology Group
- Division of Informatics
- University of Edinburgh
- Edinburgh, U.K.
| - Udo Hahn
- Computational Linguistics Lab
- Freiburg University
- Freiburg, Germany
| Outline - Metonymy definitions, examples and characteristics
- Earlier computational approaches to detecting and interpreting metonymy
- Markert & Hahn’s criticism of the earlier computational approaches and proposed solutions to these problems
- Markert & Hahn’s computational model
- Conclusions
Metonymy: Definitions - A non-literal figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for that of another related to it. (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980)
- The use of a word or expression as a substitute for something with which it is closely associated. From Greek metonumia ‘change of name’. (Oxford English Dictionary)
- The use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity. It is also known as denominatio or pars pro toto (part for the whole).
- One of the basic characteristics of cognition. It is extremely common for people to take one well-understood or easy-to-perceive aspect of something and use that aspect to stand either for the thing as a whole or for some other aspect or part of it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy)
- The ham sandwich is waiting for his check.
- Nixon bombed Hanoi.
- Which airlines fly from Boston to Denver?
- The Boston office called.
- Denise drank the bottle.
- The kettle is boiling.
- You’ll find better ideas than that in the library.
- John began a novel.
- Scotland beat Ireland.
- America did once try to ban alcohol.
- Ask seat 19 whether he wants to swap.
- Press-men hoisted their Kodaks.
- I liked the laser; its printouts were excellent.
- He read Shakespeare.
- I’m parked out back.
- The White House announced a preparedness plan that could include travel limitations should an outbreak of avian flu threaten the United States.
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