Search results for "Metonymy" - New World Encyclopedia

empiricism and the problem of universals. Metonymy, in linguistics, refers ... fallacy. In linguistics this is called metonymy, in which abstract concepts ...

polysemy, paronyms, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy, and others. ===The dynamic turn in semantics=== These traditional perspectives have ...

similes, allegories, and parables, but not metonymy. Phrases like "and so on," "and the like," "as if," and the very word ...

condense meaning through metaphor, allusion, and metonymy, they create new worlds of understanding—a President becomes a tiger (or pussycat), a political ...

human and natural phenomena. In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized ...

In early China, "spring and autumn" was a commonly used metonymy for the year as a whole, and the phrase was used as a title for the ...

use of language, a rhetorical structure based on metonymy—that is, a description of things as they are—rather than through simile, metaphor, or ...

is identified with the linguistic trope of metonymy, and displacement with metaphor. Lacan applied the ideas of de Saussure and Jakobson to psychoanalytic ...

and hospitable reception. By metonymy the Latin word then came to mean a guest-chamber, guest's lodging, an inn. [https://www.etymonline ...