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metonymy

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is a meeting where three hundred people hold in their stomachs for four hours while writing down the names and addresses of friends they'll never contact.

is a device that states nor implies the connection between lthe objects involved in it. We must already know that the objects are related, if the metonymy is to be devised or understood.

As literary theorist Hugh Bredin puts it, 'A metonymy neither states nor implies the connection between lthe objects involved in it. For this reason it relies wholly upon those relations between objects that are habitually and conventionally known and accepted. We must already know that the objects are related, if the metonymy is to be devised or understood.' Without disagreeing with that assessment, I want to suggest that the metonymic relation is creative as well as conventional in at least two ways. The power of metaphor, again, comes from the conjoining of objects from quite different domains' (Polletta 2006 59).

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