Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Background and purpose of the volume -- 2. Some properties of conceptual metonymy -- 2.1. Metonymy as a contingent relation -- 2.2. Metonymy and speech acts -- 2.3. Do referential, predicational, and illocutionary metonymies form a ``natural class''? -- 2.4. Strength of metonymic link -- 2.5. The ubiquity of metonymy -- 2.6. Summary -- 3. Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing -- 3.1. Metonymy and implicature -- 3.2. Metonymy and explicature -- 4. The contributions to this volume -- 4.1. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics -- 4.2. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure -- 4.3. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change -- 4.4. Metonymic inferencing across languages -- 5. Prospects for studies in metonymy -- Notes -- References -- Part 1. The place of metonymy in cognition and pragmatics -- Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Implicatures and explicatures -- 3. Metaphoric mappings and pragmatic implication -- 4. Metonymic mappings and pragmatic implication -- 5. Explicature derivation through double metonymic mapping -- 6. Conceptual interaction between metaphor and metonymy as a form of deriving explicatures -- 7. Summary and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Metonymy and conceptual blending -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General definitions of conceptual blending -- 2.1. Mental space theory -- 2.2. Conceptual blending theory -- 2.3. Conceptual integration networks -- 3. Optimality principles -- 4. Metonymic shifts -- 5. Idioms: X your own Y -- 5.1. Digging your own grave -- 5.2. Blowing your own horn -- 6. Sculpture -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The case for a metonymic basis of pragmatic inferencing.

1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy -- 3. Analysis of a sample of jokes and anecdotes -- 3.1. The pediatrician and the innocent young mother -- 3.2. The ironic doctor -- 3.3. Clubs and kindness -- 3.4. A parliamentary repartee -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part 2. Metonymic inferencing and grammatical structure -- A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic tenets of Construction Grammar -- 3. Indirect speech act constructions -- 3.1. Unpredictable semantic properties of indirect speech acts -- 3.2. Unpredictable formal properties of indirect speech acts -- 3.3. The metonymy link -- 4. Neurolinguistic evidence -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Metonymies as natural inference and activation schemas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A cognitive approach to independent if-clauses -- 2.1. The conceptual space of the independent if-clause -- 2.2. A scenario approach to speech acts -- 3. Analysis of data -- 3.1. Deontic function -- 3.2. Expressive function -- 3.3. Epistemic function -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Metonymic pathways to neuter-gender human nominals in German -- 1. Introduction: remarkable syntax in a text by Karl Waggerl -- 2. The semantics of nominal classification in German -- 2.1. Some principles of gender assignment in the German lexicon -- 2.2. Empirical support for non-arbitrary gender assignment in German -- 3. German neut-gender classification for human beings -- 3.1. Historical development and current productivity -- 3.2. Metonymic motivation of German neut-gender nouns -- 4. Metonymic processes in discourse: the Waggerl text -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Part 3. Metonymic inferencing and linguistic change -- The development of counterfactual implicatures in English -- 1. Introduction.

2. M-inferences and counterfactual implicatures -- 2.1. M-inferences and Quantity -- 2.2. Other possible candidates for M-inferences -- 2.3. Modality and Horn-scales -- 2.4. The contribution of metonymic extensions -- 3. Aspect and grammatical environment -- 4. Interim summary -- 5. A survey of diachronic texts -- 5.1. Data and environments -- 5.2. Results and discussion -- 6. Comparison of the three alternates -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Primary sources -- Old English -- Middle English -- Early Modern English -- Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphemes used as comps and as sfps -- 3. Koto as an sfp in the [S koto] construction -- 4. Pragmatic inference in the reanalysis of koto -- 5. The role of metonymy in the reanalysis of grammatical morphemes -- Notes -- References -- Part 4. Metonymic inferencing across languages -- Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymic construal of shopping requests in have- and be-languages -- 2.1. Precondition: the article's availability -- 2.2. Transfer of the article to the customer -- 2.3. Reception of the article by the customer -- 2.4. Result of the article's transaction -- 2.5. Summary -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Possession vs. existence -- 3.2. Indirectness vs. Deference -- 3.3. Action vs. process -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reporting linguistic action and metonymy -- 3. A preliminary crosslinguistic comparison -- 4. Referential vs. predicational metonymy, polysemy of adjectives and the role of grammatical constructions in English -- 5. More contrastive data on ascriptive constructions and polysemy in predication formation.

6. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Name index -- Metonymy and metaphor index -- Subject index -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.