{"id":743,"date":"2008-10-06T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/metonymy\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:34:47","slug":"metonymy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Metonymy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metonymy cropped up in the readings for my Semantics class this week, so I thought I&#8217;d write about it here to make sure I understand what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The word metonymy come for the Greek <em>\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03af\u03b1<\/em> (met\u014dnymia), which means &#8220;a change of name&#8221;. A metonym substitutes one word to stand for another that&#8217;s connected in some way.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples which show some of the ways in which this figure of speech is used:<\/p>\n<p>All hands on deck! &#8211; <em>here hands stands for sailors (part for whole)<\/em><br \/>\nTo fill up the car &#8211; <em>the car stands for the petrol\/gas tank (whole for part)<\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have a Heineken &#8211; <em>Heineken stands for beer (producer for product)<\/em><br \/>\nNo. 10 declined to comment &#8211; <em>No. 10 Downing Street in London is the official residence of the British Prime Minister (place for institution)<\/em><br \/>\nCan I pay with plastic? &#8211; <em>plastic stands for a credit\/debit card<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first example is also known as a synecdoche.<\/p>\n<p>These examples are based mainly on those found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0582784964\/omniglot-20\"><em>An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics<\/em><\/a> by Freidrich Ungerer and Hans-J\u00f6rg Schmid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metonymy cropped up in the readings for my Semantics class this week, so I thought I&#8217;d write about it here to make sure I understand what it is. The word metonymy come for the Greek \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03af\u03b1 (met\u014dnymia), which means &#8220;a change of name&#8221;. A metonym substitutes one word to stand for another that&#8217;s connected in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-linguistics","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}