{"id":8927,"date":"2012-04-03T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:08:22","slug":"metonymy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/04\/03\/metonymy\/","title":{"rendered":"metonymy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it, e.g.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>the bottle<\/em> for alcoholic drink,<\/li>\n<li><em>the press<\/em> for journalism,<\/li>\n<li><em>skirt<\/em> for woman,<\/li>\n<li><em>Mozart<\/em> for Mozart&#8217;s music,<\/li>\n<li><em>the Oval Office<\/em> for the US presidency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A well\u2010known metonymic saying is the pen is mightier than the sword (i.e. writing is more powerful than warfare).<\/p>\n<p>A word used in such metonymic expressions is sometimes called a metonym. \u2026 An important kind of metonymy is synecdoche , in which the name of a part is substituted for that of a whole (e.g. hand for worker), or vice versa. Modern literary theory has often used \u2018metonymy\u2019 in a wider sense, to designate the process of association by which metonymies are produced and understood: this involves establishing relationships of contiguity between two things, whereas metaphor establishes relationships of similarity between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it, e.g. the bottle for alcoholic drink, the press for journalism, skirt for woman, Mozart for Mozart&#8217;s music, the Oval Office for the US presidency. A well\u2010known metonymic saying is the pen is mightier than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/04\/03\/metonymy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;metonymy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dubash","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}