This text provides an account of metonymic research. The contributions share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be more fundamental than metaphor.

1. Introduction (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe); 2. Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Metonymy; 3. Towards a Theory of Metonymy (by Radden, Gunter); 4. Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy (by Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.); 5. Metonymy and Conceptual Integration (by Fauconnier, Gilles); 6. Distinguishing Metonymy from Synecdoche (by Seto, Ken-ichi); 7. Aspects of Referential Metonymy (by Warren, Beatrice); 8. Part II: Historical Aspects of Metonymy; 9. frame and Cognity: On the Cognitive Bases of Metonymy and Certain Types of Word Formation (by Koch, Peter); 10. Co-presence and Succession: A Cognitive Typology of Metonymy (by Blank, Andreas); 11. Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts (by Goossens, Louis); 12. Metonymy in Onomastics (by Jakel, Olaf); 13. Part III: Case Studies of Metonymy; 14. Grammatical Constraints on Metonymy: On the Role of the Direct Object (by Waltereit, Richard); 15. Putting Metonymy in its Place (by Pauwels, Paul); 16. Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata (by Dirven, Rene); 17. Opposition as a Metonymic Principle (by Vosshagen, Christian); 18. Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions (by Feyaerts, Kurt); 19. The Potentiality for Actuality Metonymy in English and Hungarian (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe); 20. Part IV: Applications of Metonymy; 21. "Mummy, I like being a sandwich": Metonymy in Language Acquisition (by Nerlich, Brigitte); 22. Recontextualization of Metonymy in Narrative and the Case of Morrison's Song of Solomon (by Pankhurst, Anne); 23. List of Contributors; 24. Subject index; 25. Author index; 26. Metonymy and metaphor index