THE NON-ENUNCIATIVE FUNCTIONING OF METONYMY IN GRAMMATICAL DISCOURSE, BY ANDRÉS BELLO

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This article is derived from my doctoral research (Werner, 2022). I have focused on the enunciative functioning of metonymy within the framework of Event Semantics (Guimarães, 2002, 2018), as another form of re-scripting meanings created at the moment of utterance. In conducting this study, I consider one of the fundamental functions of enunciation proposed within this theoretical framework: re-scripting. The analysis is based on excerpts from Gramática de la lengua castellana, destinada al uso de los americanos (1847), by the Venezuelan Andrés Bello. The findings indicate that metonymy operates as an additional mode of enunciative re-scripting by substitution, among those previously identified in the theory. It functions within metalinguistic discourse, establishing new meaning possibilities arising from its operation. Furthermore, the language designated metonymically in this linguistic tool reveals its constitutive heterogeneity.

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Kelly Cristini Granzotto Werner, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/Colégio Politécnico da UFSM

GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS-PORTUGUÊS (2000)

GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS-ESPAÑOL

ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM METODOLOGIAS INOVADORAS APLICADAS À EDUCAÇÃO

MESTRADO EM LETRAS - ESTUDOS LINGUÍSTICOS

PROFESSORA DE LÍNGUA ESPANHOLA DA UFSM - COLÉGIO POLITÉCNICO DA UFSM.

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2025-08-16

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Vol. 47 (2025)

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Artigos Tema Livre

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