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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Metonymy in Classical Rhetoric
2.2 Metonymy-From the Perspective of Structuralism and Pragmatics
2.2.1 Previous Pragmatic Accounts of Metonymy
2.2.2 Structuralist View on Metonymy
2.3 The Cognitive Theory of Metonymy
2.3.1 Metonymy as Being Conceptual in Nature
2.3.2 Metonymy as Being a Cognitive Process
2.3.3 Metonymy as Operating within an Idealized Cognitive Model
2.4 Understanding Metonymy
2.4.1 Crice's Theory of Implicature
2.4.2 Relevance-theoretic Account of Metonymy
2.5 Classifications of Metonymies
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Functional Stylistics
3.2 The Cultural Foundation of Conceptual Metonymy
3.3 Language and Thought
Chapter 4 Analysis of Metonymy in English Political News Coverage
4.1 Quantitative Analysis
4.1.1 Corpus Building and Data Collection
4.1.2 Discussion on the Data
4.2 Qualitative Analysis
4.2.1 A Wide Variety of Metonymies in English Political News Coverage
4.2.2 Names in English Political News Coverage
4.2.3 Metonymies and the Creation of New Words and New Meanings
4.3 The Functions of Metonymy in English Political News Coverage
4.3.1 The Political Effects of Metonymically Used Names
4.3.2 Economy and Brevity
4.3.3 Strengthen Contextual Effects
4.3.4 Interpersonal Metafunction
4.3.5 Rhetorical Effects
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Appendix Sample：Democrats Target Rumsfeld
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
