Starting from the conceptual nature of metonymy, this paper expounds the relations between metonymy and speech act, metonymy and cognitivedistance, etc.
本文从转喻的概念本质出发，分析了转喻与言语行为，转喻与认知距离等的关系。
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They may try to distance themselves both from the event in question and even others who probe the event, with subtle moves away and creation of physical and cognitive barriers.
The iconicity of politeness in the mental representation is discussed, which can be examined from cognitive context iconicity, pragmatic distance iconicity and scalar quantity iconicity.