Provides insights into variation in metonymy focusing especially on changes of naming with respect to a particular concept. This title also includes case studies that delineate how both linguistic and cultural-social factors exert an influence on metonymic conceptualiz... Lees meer.

The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia for Vivian sifts through a queer trans woman s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire grief and delight the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entrie... Lees meer.

Fiction. Asian Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women s Studies. SMALL BEAUTY tells the story of Mei a mixed race trans woman managing the death of her cousin the ways she contorts to navigate racism and transphobia and her desire for community as she takes... Lees meer.

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian and Asian American Studies. Young Adult. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS. A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational ultra-exciting sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl pathological... Lees meer.

A contemporary queer re-visioning of a beautiful feminist tarot deck from the 80s documenting a conversation across generations and mediums She Is Sitting in the Night emerges as both a tool for tarot reading and a celebration of queer and feminist cultural production... Lees meer.

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place language and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on th... Lees meer.

The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia for Vivian sifts through a queer trans woman s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire grief and delight the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entrie... Lees meer.

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics psycholinguistics psychology and literary studies. However they share the assumption that... Lees meer.

Dear Black girls all around the world this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna D... Lees meer.

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful surrealist dance through queer coming of age. A haunted young girl who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar runs away from an opp... Lees meer.

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters who grow as tall as bu... Lees meer.

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This title elaborates one of Roman Jakobson s brilliant ideas his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes.... Lees meer.

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed but it has also allowed f... Lees meer.

The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy a phenomenon which still despite the current upsurge in scholarly attention remains puzzling in some respects. The theoretical framework of this book is provided by the school of tho... Lees meer.