The online Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy offers a research tool for anyone interested in figurative language. Metaphor and metonymy play an important role in language use in everyday life and communication. Their study is by nature interdisciplinary. This instrument is therefore relevant to a broad audience, including (but not limited to) those working in linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies, communication studies, lexicology, pragmatics and discourse, rhetoric, stylistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, translation studies, literary studies, cognitive sciences.

MetBib strives to cover the whole range of publications on the topic, including articles, books, and electronic resources, from a wide variety of countries and languages. Each publication has a full bibliographic description and keywords, and many have abstracts. MetBib now also provides CrossRef DOIs, where available, for easier linking to source materials (NB. access to sources is not included and depends on whether you/your library subscribes to a source). The bibliography is updated annually. The current release includes data from 1990 onwards, and contains approx. 10,000 records.

This online bibliography has a range of options for easy searching and smooth navigation through an advanced and stylized application, with which users of Benjamins' Translation Studies Bibliography and Bibliography of Pragmatics are already familiar.

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