metonymic

Examples

• All

• Here, the elements of Mme. Arnoux's world become metonymic representations of her very person.

  Academic text (1990)

• Roman Jakobson's famous distinction between the metaphoric and the metonymic poles of discourse may provide some help in understanding this problem.

  Academic text (1993)

• First, the shared features found in the metonymic chains of features from the two domains are sorted out.

  Academic text (1990)

• In my view, where successful, this end is largely accomplished through metonymic implication.

  Academic text (1990)

• Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, he notes four methods of discovering a city, the first of which is metonymic.

  Academic text (2002)

• The Poema, however, is far from simple; it exploits the metonymic mode in highly diverse and effective ways.

  Academic text (1991)

• Haya asserts the unity of this domain in a metonymic manner.

  Academic text (1990)

• A powerful metonymic hierarchy based on the dyad of agent and instrument dominates the description that follows.

  Academic text (1996)

• A reversal of these obviously simplistic observations should provide an approach to characterizing a strongly metonymic text.

  Academic text (1991)

• The ritualistic narrative of tribal culture is typically incantatory and metonymic but easily moves into the metaphoric mode.

  Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

M

metonymous

vsmetonymic

• Literature

1 9.6

Using the name of something closely related to mean something else, like 'the White House' for the president

emphasizes the linguistic relation more than the named substitute

M

metonymical

vsmetonymic

• Literature

1 9.1

Using one thing's name to mean something closely connected, like 'the crown' for the king

is the shorter, more common adjective form for the same usage

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology