The choice of what elements to delete and what elements to keep (backgrounding and foregrounding) is very often ideological. Some elements are deleted from the original. Metonymy always involves a process of REDUCTION of the sentence. The use the Crown to refer to the Queen not because the crown looks like the Queen, but because she wears it and it is therefore associated with her. We use one word instead of another not because it is SIMILAR to it, but because it is ASSOCIATED with it. Involves a process of SUBSTITUTION based on ASSOCIATIONS at sentences level. Place for the event: Pearl harbor has an effect on foreign policies. Place for institution: the White House is lying Institution for people responsible: I don't approve of the government's actions
Part for the whole: the automobile is clogging highwaysĬontroller for controlled: nixon bombed hanoi Imputing human qualities to things that are not human Metonymy to use one entity to refer to another
Personification see sth non human as human Controlling metaphor a metaphor that runs through an entire work and determines the form or nature of that work container metaphor We are physical beings bounded and set off by the surface of our skin, we experience the rest of the world as outside us.Each of us is a container with a bounding surface and an in-out orientation.
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