Is metonymy a relationship between 'entities' or 'domains'? Is it necessarily referential? And what is meant by the claim that metonymy is a 'stand-for' relationship? This title includes ten contributions that address such core issues on the basis of the research results.

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Barcelona, Antonio); 3. Reviewing the properties and prototype structure of metonymy (by Barcelona, Antonio); 4. Part I. Metonymy and related cognitive, semantic, and rhetorical phenomena; 5. Metonymization: A key mechanism in semantic change (by Paradis, Carita); 6. Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy (by Geeraerts, Dirk); 7. Metonymy and cognitive operations (by Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez, Francisco Jose); 8. Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy (by Koskela, Anu); 9. Metonymy at the crossroads: A case of euphemisms and dysphemisms (by Gradecak-Erdeljic, Tanja); 10. The role of metonymy in complex tropes: Cognitive operations and pragmatic implications (by Herrero Ruiz, Javier); 11. Part II. Metonymy and metonymic chains as mappings or processes within domain matrices/networks; 12. Putting the notion of "domain" back into metonymy: Evidence from compounds (by Benczes, Reka); 13. What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy? (by Brdar-Szabo, Rita); 14. Metonymic matrix domains and multiple formations in indirect speech acts (by Chen, Xianglan); 15. Authors' biodata; 16. Metaphor and metonymy index; 17. Name index; 18. Subject index