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Semantic Shift in Plant Names
DOSKOČILOVÁ, Iveta
The aim of the present work is to identify and list English plant names coined by semantic shift, namely by metaphor, metonymy or synecdoche, and to carry out a detailed categorisation of individual semantic categories based on different tendencies within them and interpretation of the results. The theoretical part of my work focuses on different approaches to semantic shift and its categories. It is followed by the practical part which deals individually with metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, their sub-categorisations and then with overlapping of the above-mentioned categories. The work is concluded with several case-studies of interesting instances of semantically shifted plant names and with the summary and conclusion of the results of my study.

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