Havet som förbinder och skiljer åt by Mia Österlund

“…Drawing on Lydia Kokkola’s theory of ”framed silence” in the narration of traumatic war memories for children, this article investigates how the wordless depiction of the Baltic Sea functions as a metonym for a child’s war experience. Wirsén’s reductive visual style makes use of contour, negative space and space in order to frame the silent parts of the narration considered too traumatic to reiterate to a young audience. …”
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Sprog og disembodiment. Simultantolkning af humor i Europaparlamentet. by Lita Sander Lundquist

“…In fact, I shall consider the interpreters’ booth, used here as a metonym for all the technical devices involved in the interpretation process, as a negative social mediator in social interaction, putting obstacles in the way of a successful translation of humour; humour which, in contrast, I consider a positive social mediator because of its potential for furthering cooperation between communication partners across languages, cultures and political observation.…”
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Lyckliga läsare by Magnus Persson

“…Here, reading becomes a lifestyle fully imbedded in contemporary ”designer culture” (Julier 2013), and is metonymically linked to, amongst other things, interior design, cooking, and travel. …”
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Evangeliefortællingens udsigelse by Ole Davidsen

“…By the establishment of this metonymical intercourse, the narration is symbolizing or semiotizing the reader, who receives his Christian identity and being from the narrative.…”
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