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| Author: | Cornelissen, J.P. |
| Title: | Metonymy in language about organizations: A corpus-based study of company names |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2008 : JAN, VOL. 45:1, p. 79-99 |
| Index terms: | languages communication organizations company name United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the use of metonymies in people's talk about organizations (here as: orgs). Drawing on a corpus of natural talk extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), identified are recurring categories of metonymies appearing to be a central part of people's talk about orgs. The findings' implications are elaborated for the understanding of how orgs. are discursively constructed and understood through metonymic language. |
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