New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy

New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities, edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła, and Goran Milić, revisits a research programme first mapped out at ESSE Debrecen in 1997 and its landmark proceedings (Barcelona 2000). Ten chapters, developed from the editors' 2024 ESSE Lausanne seminar together with invited contributions from leading scholars, trace conceptual metaphor and metonymy across historical semantics, word-formation, corpus linguistics, political journalism, euphemism, film music, and pandemic-era visual rhetoric. Organized in two parts – metaphor and metonymy in context, and across discourse types and modalities – the volume gives particular attention to metaphor-metonymy interaction (metaphtonymy) and to multimodal realizations in image, gesture, and sound. Drawing on English, Chinese, Croatian, and cross-linguistic data, it will interest cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and scholars of translation, media, and multimodality seeking an up-to-date picture of the field a quarter-century on.