stic device and the phenomenon of contemporary language
1.1 Metonymy: definition, structure and function
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Metonymy is a Figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (eg the London for «the Britain government»). is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. Metonyms can be either real or fictional concepts representing other concepts real or fictional, but they must serve as an effective and widely understood second name for what they represent.instance, «Hollywood» is used as a metonym (an instance of metonymy) for the US cinema industry, because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood, a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, as the historical center of film studios and film stars.example is «Westminster», which is used as a metonym for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, because it is located there. Another example showing a different version of metonymy is the fictional character Scrooge McDuck's «money bin» or indeed Scrooge himself, often used in Disney works and parody works as metonymous with wealth - most currency in the modern era is now stored electronically, but the money bin is still drawn in comics and persists as a pop culture metonym for any financial holding of great value.words «metonymy» and «metonym» come from the Greek (from Late Latin metonymia): ????????? , met? Nym ? A , «a change of name», from ???? , met? , «after, beyond» and - ?????? , - ? nym? A , a suffix used to name figures of speech, from? ? ? ?? , ? Nyma or? ???? , ? Noma , «name.» Metonymy also may be instructively contrasted with metaphor. Both figures involve the substitution of one term for another. In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific similarity, whereas, in metonymy, the substitution is based on some understood association (contiguity).
The White House released its official report today. - «The White House» for «The presidential administration»
The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. - «The Crown» for «The government of the United Kingdom».
A crowd of fifty heads - where «head» stands for person.
Put it on the plastic - material (plastic) for object (credit card) [28] .solid definition of metonymy needs to meet at least two requirements: (1) it has to be capable of distinguishing metonymy clearly from related notions such as metaphor as well as from so-called literal uses of language; and (2) it needs to take into consideration not only the cognitive aspects of this phenomenon but also its grammatical and communicative import. [27] .function of metonymy is to replace a noun with a figure of speech. This means replacing a word with another one.
Metonymy, on the one hand - a way to form new words, and stylistic mean, on the other. Thus, metonymy is divided into «language metonymy and speech metonymy». linguistic metonymy gets a shade of stamping. Metonymy gray hairs instead of old age; bottle instead of drunkenness - the examples of linguistic metonymy. «And the first cab having been fetched from the public house, where he had been smoking his pipe, Mr. Pickwick and his portmanteau were thrown into the vehicle. » (Dickens) - here the word cab , instead cabman, expressed attitude and instruments of production figure. It also is an expressive mean of the language along with other means of expression for the more emotional, imaginative interpretation of the phenomena described. Metonymy defined in linguistics differently. Some linguists define metonymy as the transfer of title to the adjacency concepts. Others define metonymy is much wider, as the replacement of one object by another name called on the relations that exist between the two. The second definition is so broad that it allows for a variety of metonymy cases of replacement of one concept to others. For example, the replacement of cause and effect, or a part of, or a particular abstract can be appropriately brought under this definition of metonymy. Structure metonymic concepts - is not only the language, but also our thoughts, attitudes and actions. As with other means, one of the main purposes of using a metonymy is to add flavor to the writing. Instead of just repeatedly saying, «the...
