What is a face-for-person metonymy?

What is a face-for-person metonymy?

Definition
	A conventional metonymy in which reference to the face is used to stand for the whole person.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	She's just a pretty face. There are an awful lot of faces out there in the audience. We need some new faces around here.

Generic
	A face-for-person metonymy is a kind of
	What is a part-for-whole metonymy?

Source
	Lakoff, G. and Johnson 1980

Context for this page:

Concept module: face-for-person metonymy
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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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