metonymy

insult

part - whole

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).

is associated with chance if metaphor is associated with necessity.

Paul De Man associates metaphor with necessity, or essence, and metonymy with chance, while substituting the chance associations of words to the spatial association in the world.

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