Abstract: According to Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy is a conceptual phenomenon, or a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity, the vehicle, provides mental access for another conceptual entity, and in this cognitive process there is an entity known as conceptual prominence. Through analysis and exemplification, the paper attempts to demonstrate that pronominal anaphora and topicality may shed light on the problem of identifying the locus of conceptual prominence. It holds that the antecedent of the pronominal anaphora is the locus of conceptual prominence.