Exempel på metonymy

• This accounted for exceptions to lexical generalisations in a discourse context in two areas : logical metonymy and compound nouns.

• Usually translated as wrestling pit or arena, it has become a metonymy for the wrestling club or team that uses a particular pit.

• This process we can identify, at least poetically, as metonymy or synecdoche.

• Both classify and interpret verbal devices such as metonymy and metaphor, and both use errors and pathologies for distinguishing among classes of verbal behavior.

• So, just as with logical metonymy, there are some linguistic constraints on compounds which must be represented.

• But the discourse context can also be used to provide clues about how to expand the metonymy.

• On the other hand we can often misunderstand the quick metonymies, the condensations, the primary process, of our own minds.

• An example is crayon, which is known as "pencil" but which can also have the meaning "drawing" (instrument-to-result metonymy).

• Thanks to dynamic elements of the lexicon like metonymy and metaphor, many senses of polysemous words have some kind of relationship.

• The distinction is often made between a metaphor and a metonymy, where the latter is 'the result' of the former.

• This is certainly true, but notice that the claim of metonymy per se does not address the mapping problem.

• The linguistic performance of seduction does not replace the physical one on stage, then, either through a weak metonymy or a strong metaphor.

• Furthermore, there is some evidence which suggests that logical metonymy is partially conventionalised and triggered by the lexical item, rather than knowledge of the context.

• For suppose we were to compute metonymy solely within pragmatics.

• It is a highly allusive style and it may be asked why we should not think of it as "allusive"; why bring in metonymy?