Exempel på metonymic

• There might be less creativity in metonymic language use than the authors assume.

• “From the cradle to the grave” is a metonymic expression that represents two abstract terms, birth and death, with two (concrete) symbols.

• Her poetry produces a metonymic web of association.

• Finally, the relationship between power/force and its material support was complicated by the metonymic quality of the body.

• Its effects make themselves felt on other levels as well through a sort of direct metaphoric or metonymic transfer from one to the other.

• The information that there is some metonymic event and that the predicate involved is a subtype of act-on-pred is not default, and cannot be overridden.

• There is not much common ground between the temporal sense and the idea of moderating or compromising, although the metonymic development is plausible.

• The two last-named pairs have typical brother names of metonymic construction.

• The negotiation of meaning may involve innovation, specifically pragmatic, semantic and ultimately grammatical enrichment, largely motivated by metonymic and metaphorical inferencing.

• One can often assign the metaphorical principle to a metaphor class defined by a metonymic principle.

• In addition to metonymic use of individual buildings, larger, more holistic representations of cities frequently serve as urban icons.

• Older children's ' metonymic ' interpretations reflect a distortion of the story context in such a way that the metaphor makes sense.

• It is an open question whether this metonymic role of the history of science can be ontological as well as epistemological.

• In some ways we find the problem of being primarily the manifestation of a perspective also in the metonymic relationship between the model and the modelled.

• These metonymic measures of contrasting types of doom - the human and the natural - need to be viewed, though, through the paradoxical frame of the penultimate sentence in the book.

• There is, she says, a "metonymic excess in every mime, indeed, in every metaphorical substitution, that is understood to disrupt the seamless repetition of the phallogocentric norm" (48).

• He posits that such forms arise through metonymic semantic change and that the relevant metonymy takes as its conceptual base a contiguity between a sound chain and a speech situation.

• As outlined above, there would have to be a means of providing an ordering on possible instantiations of the underspecified metonymic predicate, either by weights or defaults.