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NOVEL METONYMY AND NOVEL METAPHOR AS PRIMARY PRAGMATIC 1 PROCESSES Esther Romero González and Belén Soria Clivillés 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to provide the distinctive identification and interpretation criteria of novel metonymy, on the one hand, and novel metaphor, on the other. Marginal as they might be considered by many theoreticians nowadays, we defend that these novel uses of language deserve attention on their own to be distinguished from literal, conventional or textual ones. In this regard, we will show that they share some characteristics, to wit, both have the contextual abnormality as one of their identification criteria, and both are best characterised as utterances requiring a primary pragmatic process for their interpretation, a subpropositional process that intervenes in the production of what is said by means of utterances; thus, a view of novel metaphor and metonymy as implicature, as utterances requiring a secondary pragmatic process, is 2 discarded. However, there are very important differences between them. In metonymy, the identification is completed by the realization that there is a veiled restricted nominal element functioning as the notional head of a textually incomplete noun phrase, and, consequently, the primary pragmatic process required for its interpretation is that of recovery of the content of empty elements in order to complete the description which allows reference assignment. There is a reconstruction so that the content of the empty syntactic element becomes “visible” in the interpretation of the metonymic utterance. In this sense, the result of applying