Conventional metonymies in English

Conventional metonymies in English

Introduction

Complementing the terminology of metonymy presented in the Glossary of linguistic terms, a large collection of conventional metonymies in English is presented here, with citations principally from Kovecses (1986) and Lakoff and Johnson (1980). Though these are in fact English metonymies, they will be useful to linguistic research and translation in other languages to the extent that they are found to be universal, or to the extent that they are found to be held in common with other Indo-European languages because of genetic or areal influences.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of conventional metonymies in English:
	What is a behavioral-reactions-for-emotion metonymy? What is a controller-for-controlled metonymy? What is an institution-for-people-responsible metonymy? What is a more-form-for-more-content metonymy? What is an object-used-for-user metonymy? What is a part-for-whole metonymy? What is a physiological-effects-for-emotion metonymy? What is a place-for-event metonymy? What is a place-for-institution metonymy? What is a producer-for-product metonymy? What is a seeing-for-making-sure metonymy? What is a thing-perceived-for-perception metonymy?

Context for this page:

Concept module: conventional metonymy in English
In modular book: Metonymies in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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