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metonymy
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me·ton·y·my
/ məˈtänəmē/
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n.
(pl. -mies)
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
DERIVATIVES:
met·o·nym·ic
/ ˌmetəˈnimik/ adj.
met·o·nym·i·cal
/ ˌmetəˈnimikəl/ adj.
met·o·nym·i·cal·ly
/ ˌmetəˈnimik(ə)lē/ adv.
ORIGIN: mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek metōnumia, literally ‘change of name.’
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Metonymy, the Neglected (but Necessary) Trope.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...four important tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche (a part for the whole...later commentators subsume into metonymy), and irony. (1) Metaphor has...Association bibliography, while "metonymy and poetry" result in only 130...
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A corpus linguistic perspective on the relationship between metonymy and metaphor.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...metaphorical raises the question of whether metonymy should be regarded as a more central...expressions of this kind have elements of both metonymy and metaphor, the view that will be...by describing some central examples of metonymy, then use corpus data to discuss the...
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Narrating the unnarratable: gender and metonymy in the Victorian novel. (Issues in English and American Literatures)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...difference I perceive in the kinds of metonymy they employ in their realist prose...valuable than its masculine counterpart. Metonymy--which seems historically to have...in the binary opposition "metaphor/metonymy"--would seem to be a likel location...
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Metonymy goes cognitive-linguistic.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...When Roman Jakobson pulled metaphor and metonymy to the center of the stage in linguistics...lexemes. As a result, metaphor and metonymy as problems of meaning were taken out...pragmatics. Culler, discussing metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche as part of the overall...
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Kuroawa and Gogol: Looking through the lens of metonymy
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...article examines Kurosawa's use of metonymy and synecdoche in relation to their counterparts...as rhetorical devices, metaphor and metonymy depend on similarity and contiguity between...Disturbances" in 1956 stirred a new interest in metonymy as a trope. In classical rhetoric...
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The definition of metonymy in ancient Greece.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Examining here the definitions of metonymy in the ancient Greek rhetorical tradition...ancient Greek rhetors explicitly called metonymy, giving examples (i.e., in manuals...the different ancient Greek concepts of metonymy will emerge as being important both for...
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The ambivalent blush: figural and structural metonymy, modesty, and Much Ado About Nothing.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Especially significant is Claudio's use of metonymy, whose complex function in specific...important figure at work in this speech is metonymy, which Claudio uses twice. (1) The...Within this category is to be found metonymy, "or misnamer," a figure "where...
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The Centrality of Metaphor and Metonymy in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Inquiry; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...METAPHORS In linguistics, metaphor and metonymy are often defined as two-term relationships...being newly discovered. In the case of metonymy, source and target lie in the same domain...and is not the same as, the target. Metonymy consists of a source being hedgingly...
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Metaphor and metonymy, color and space, in Lawrence's 'Sea and Sardinia.'
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...coordinate title Sea and Sardinia suggests metonymy and synecdoche. As Lawrence remarks...on holiday from more strenuous tasks. Metonymy dominates in travel writings, where...But there are frequent shifts from metonymy to metaphor (Jakobson) and from thing...
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From metonymy to metaphor: Paul Auster's 'Leviathan.' (novelist)(Paul Auster issue)
Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...appear to be written under the banner of metonymy, figure of contiguity and contingency...to the difference between metaphor and metonymy, necessity and chance being a legitimate...works and Auster's predilection for metonymy over metaphor is incontrovertible. And...
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Metonymy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
METONYMY Metonymy is a figure of speech that involves transferring a name from one thing...example would be "a sail on the horizon" for "a ship on the horizon." Metonymy is a fundamental notion supporting Lacan's thesis that "the unconscious...
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METONYMY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
METONYMY. A FIGURE OF SPEECH which designates...metonymically ( crown , as above) is a metonym Metonymy is closely related to and sometimes hard...containing synecdoche. Both metaphor and metonymy express association, metaphor through...
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metonymy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
metonymy , figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to it is substituted for the thing itself. Thus, "sweat" can mean "hard labor," and "Capitol Hill" represents the U.S. Congress.
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Letter, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...sides of the signifier (metaphor and metonymy) in the creation of meaning and in the...that govern language, metaphor, and metonymy (Roman Jakobson), and the function...meaning can only occur through metaphor or metonymy. Thus Freud discovered the processes...
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...relate to each other. As a result, metaphor in some approaches contains METONYMY , in others does not, and SYNECDOCHE may or may not be a kind of metaphor or metonymy. As a result, in recent years attempts to arrange the figures hierarchically...
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