The significance of linguistic creativity in everyday situations is now widely recognized in
applied linguistics. There has been substantial discussion of the role played by various …

This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement,
euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and …

The aim of this paper is to analyse metonymies from a relevance-theoretic perspective.
Metonymy has been considered as an association process between contiguous items within …

This article provides a case study account of the language functions of tipo, which is a
pragmatic feature of Argentine Spanish vernacular, as used by 10 young adult native …

El mundo del vino ha despertado un interés creciente en los últimos años. Las dimensiones
económica y socio-cultural del vino, que lo han convertido en signo de elevado estatus y …

The article is a reflection on the various areas of cognitive linguistic research on metonymy
that are of potential relevance for SLA. Three of them are particularly relevant:(1) research …

We explore the intensifying accusative clitic (IAC) ga ('it') in Serbian, which has no explicit
antecedent, neither introduced in the previous discourse, nor contextually available for …

The study aimed to examine the effect of using reflective listening on developing EFL adults'
oral fluency. The study begins with a review of literature and previous studies dealing with …

Metonymy is a pervasive aspect of spontaneous as well as reflective linguistic performance
and its cognitive and communicative role needs to be adequately attended to. The paper …

The human nervous system evolved for the control of complex physical actions. Yet, we are
far from understanding the human capacity for complex abstract thought. One theory …