Metonymy and related figures of speech are common in everyday speech and writing. Synecdoche and metalepsis are considered specific types of metonymy. Polysemy, the… See more

Western culture studied poetic language and deemed it to be rhetoric. A. Al-Sharafi supports this concept in his book Textual Metonymy, "Greek rhetorical scholarship at one time became … See more

Metonyms can also be wordless. For example, Roman Jakobson argued that cubist art relied heavily on nonlinguistic metonyms, while surrealist art relied more on metaphors.
Lakoff and Turner argued that all words are metonyms: "Words … See more

• Fass, Dan (1988). "Metonymy and metaphor: what's the difference?". Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational … See more

Metonymy takes many different forms.
Synecdoche uses a part to refer to the whole, or the whole to refer to the part.
Metalepsis uses … See more

Metonymy became important in French structuralism through the work of Roman Jakobson. In his 1956 essay "The Metaphoric and… See more

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