Les métaphores comestibles dans les rituels mexicains by Danièle Dehouve

“…Difrasismos, often considered to be linguistic techniques typical of ritual mesoamerican speeches, are considered here to be particular cases of « definition by extension », which forms « metonymical series ». The ritual dishes are analysed as material and eatable difrasismos which first of all represent a metonymical technique, and constitute the basis of metaphorsRitual food.…”
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Las metáforas comestibles en los rituales mexicanos by Danièle Dehouve

“…Difrasismos, often considered to be linguistic techniques typical of ritual mesoamerican speeches, are considered here to be particular cases of « definition by extension », which forms « metonymical series ». The ritual dishes are analysed as material and eatable difrasismos which first of all represent a metonymical technique, and constitute the basis of metaphors.…”
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Presencia y performance: los cantares mexicanos frente al historicismo by Charlie D. Hankin

“…The cantares function through a relationship of metonymic proximity between words and things and is constantly constructed in the presence – both temporal and spatial – of the performance. …”
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Néantisation et lutte contre l’oubli : La représentation de la violence des conflits armés colombiens dans deux œuvres photographiques d’Erika Diettes, Río abajo (2008) et Sudarios... by Emmanuelle Sinardet

“…In a constant tension between absence and presence, the exhibitions show the emptiness left by the missing persons and the infinite suffering of their families, who are incapable to begin their process of mourning ; but they also return to them the elusive corpse in a symbolic way, by shaping a metonymical trace of the missing body. The art becomes a dignifying moral reparation, since it allows metaphoric funeral rites and the process of mourning. …”
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