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Part 1 Theoretical aspects of metonymy: towards a theory of metonymy;speaking and thinking with metonymy; metonymy and conceptual integration;distinguishing metonymy from synecdoche; aspects of referential metonymy.Part 2 Historical aspects of metonymy: frame and contiguity - on thecognitive bases of metonymy and certain types of word formation; co-presenceand succession - a cognitive typology of metonymy; metonymic bridges in modalshifts; metonymy in onomastics; grammatical constraints on metonymy - on therole of the direct object; putting metonymy in its place; conversion as aconceptual metonymy of event schemata; opposition as a metonymic principle;metonymic hierarchies - the conceptualization of stupidity in Germanidiomatic expressions; the potentiality for actuality metonymy in English andHungarian. Part 4 Applications of metonymy: "mummy, I like being a sandwich"- metonymy in language aquisition; recontextualization of metonymy innarrative and the case of Morrison's song of Solomon.