0 relating to or using metonymy (= referring to something using a word that describes one of its qualities or features): --
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
It is an open question whether this metonymic role of the history of science can be ontological as well as epistemological.
Older children's ' metonymic ' interpretations reflect a distortion of the story context in such a way that the metaphor makes sense.
In addition to metonymic use of individual buildings, larger, more holistic representations of cities frequently serve as urban icons.
