What is a boasting-for-pride metonymy?

What is a boasting-for-pride metonymy?

Definition
	A conventional metonymy in which reference to the behavioral reaction of boasting is used to stand for pride.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	He's always singing his own praises. Here he is blowing his own horn again. He's always broadcasting his own achievements. You like talking big, don't you?

Generic
	A boasting-for-pride metonymy is a kind of
	What is a behavioral metonymy for pride?

Source
	Kovecses 1986

Context for this page:

Concept module: boasting-for-pride metonymy
In modular book: Metonymies in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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