metonymic

Examples of metonymy

metonymy
This accounted for exceptions to lexical generalisations in a discourse context in two areas : logical metonymy and compound nouns.
Usually translated as wrestling pit or arena, it has become a metonymy for the wrestling club or team that uses a particular pit.
This process we can identify, at least poetically, as metonymy or synecdoche.
Both classify and interpret verbal devices such as metonymy and metaphor, and both use errors and pathologies for distinguishing among classes of verbal behavior.
So, just as with logical metonymy, there are some linguistic constraints on compounds which must be represented.
But the discourse context can also be used to provide clues about how to expand the metonymy.
On the other hand we can often misunderstand the quick metonymies, the condensations, the primary process, of our own minds.
An example is crayon, which is known as "pencil" but which can also have the meaning "drawing" (instrument-to-result metonymy).
Thanks to dynamic elements of the lexicon like metonymy and metaphor, many senses of polysemous words have some kind of relationship.
The distinction is often made between a metaphor and a metonymy, where the latter is 'the result' of the former.
This is certainly true, but notice that the claim of metonymy per se does not address the mapping problem.
The linguistic performance of seduction does not replace the physical one on stage, then, either through a weak metonymy or a strong metaphor.
Furthermore, there is some evidence which suggests that logical metonymy is partially conventionalised and triggered by the lexical item, rather than knowledge of the context.
For suppose we were to compute metonymy solely within pragmatics.
It is a highly allusive style and it may be asked why we should not think of it as "allusive"; why bring in metonymy?
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