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Research in Language 2007
On Multiple Metonymies Within Indirect Speech ActsDOI: 10.2478/v10015-007-0010-6 Keywords: conceptual distance, construal of salience, idealized cognitive model (ICM), indirect directive, indirect speech act, metonymic chain, metonymy, multiple metonymies, multi-levelled metonymies, zone activation Abstract: Indirect speech acts are frequently structured by more than a single metonymy. The metonymies are related not only to the illocutionary force of the utterances, but also function within the individual lexemes being their parts. An indirect speech act can thus involve not only multiple, but also multi-levelled operation of conceptual metonymy.
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