Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2015, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (11): 24-29.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.11.006

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The Reversibility of Figure-Ground Theory and the Cognitive Mechanism of Metonymy

LU Junyu   

  • Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: The reversal of Figure-Ground organization not only illuminates the reversibility of metonymic mappings but also finds its way to set up a holistic framework to elaborate the cognitive mechanisms in generating and construing metonymy which are two reverse cognitive processes occurring in different time and space, and, therefore, it is inadvisable and misleading to mix up the two processes or only pay attention to either of them in metonymic research.

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