Metonymic modelling of discourse, discourse modelling of metonymy
Résumé
This paper deals with the way metonymy contributes to the
construction and understanding of social objects and of discourses related to
them. The analysis is based on an empirical study of place-name based
metonymies on the grounds of discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics. It is
shown that metonymy lays out referential nets characterized by the variability
of anaphora and predicate agreement, as well as by the agglomeration of
coreferential units. These nets outline discourse sites and provide both a
relevant support for text interpretation and a flexible ground for text
progression.