Processing Metonymy And Metaphor (advances In Discourse Processes) [Hardcover]

provides good answers to the expectations it title raisesthe book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole methods gives a way to distinguish diifferent tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity. Computational Linguistics

Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is Non-Literal Language?
What are Metaphor and Metonymy?
Language Model, Collative Semantics and meta5 Program
The Representation of Lexical Ambiguity
The Discrimination of Semantic Relations
The Representation of Semantic Relations
The Resolution of Lexical Ambiguity
Processing Issues
Extensions
Related Work
Discussion and Conclusions
References
Appendices
Author Index
Subject Index
Index of Metaphor types with examples. Index of Metonymy types with examples