“Out With the Galleries, Out with the Sellouts:” Arts Organizations and Real Estate Investment in Los Angeles and Detroit by Aaron Shkuda

“…To fully understand the relationship between art and capital in an urban context, one must analyze the specific ways in which art brings capital into a neighborhood within the context of the historic, economic, and the policies that shape neighborhood dynamics. Art is often a metonym for capital, and these case studies demonstrate how the symbolic function of the arts can obscure the precise relationships between art and real estate investment.…”
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Playing With the Anthropocene: Board Game Imaginaries of Islands, Nature, and Empire by Hannah Fair

“…The figure of the island as a metonym for the planet is central to many allegories of the Anthropocene. …”
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Divine truth, presence, and power: Christian books in Roman North Africa by Coogan, J

“…The sacred book functions as a metonym for Christian confession, an avatar of divine presence, and a powerful agent of healing. …”

Hallowed Haunts: The National African American Museum as Sacred Space by Richard Newton

“…As such, the national African American museum exemplifies Long’s thesis of sacred space as human centers, a metonym for the places humans visit for orientation.…”
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Tuning into the Radio in Experimental Films from India by Gabriele

“…In both films, the radio is used as a metonym to critique the aural experience in broadcast media. …”
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Gastropolitiche messicane. Il processo di riconoscimento UNESCO e l’idea di nazione by Davide Domenici

“…Therefore, the second request was centred on a specific regional example – the “Michoacán Paradigm” – presented, quite paradoxically, as a metonym of the national gastronomic tradition as a whole. …”
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Cancionero Imagery and the Haptic Power of the Gaze in Roís Corella’s Història de Leànder i Hero by Luis F. López González

“…Hero’s tower, which becomes a metonym for Hero, is always within Leànder’s choric visual field and cannot stop staring until he dies. …”
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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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Naisfiloloogi naeruväärsus ja ebamugavus hilisnõukogude Eesti kultuuris by Johanna Ross

“…It is concluded that in literary works by male authors, the woman philologist became a metonym for several demographic problems also discussed in contemporary print media: changing gender roles, gender gaps in education, divorces, falling birth rates. …”
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Metonymy and frame integration: Interfacing between concepts and discourse by Ioannou Georgios

“…This article inquiries into specific aspects of the relation between conceptual contiguity found in metonymic shifts and the online construction of frames, seen as a dynamic process of construal. …”
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METONYMY BASED ON CULTURAL BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND PRAGMATIC INFERENCING: EVIDENCE FROM SPOKEN DISCOURSE by Arijana Krišković, Sandra Tominac

“…Case analyses of authentic utterances classifi ed as illocutionary metonymies following the pragmatic typology of metonymic functions are presented. Th e inferencing processes are facilitated by metonymic connections existing between domains or subdomains in the same functional domain. …”
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Formation of English Phraseological Units with Names of Professions by Anzhela Tuarmenskaya, Vladimir Tuarmenskiy

“…The research aims at identifying the role of metaphorical and metonymic transference in the process of phraseologization. …”
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Propaganda in the Context of “Parable – Paradigm” by Georgij Khazagerov

“…This article presents two strategies of manipulation: metaphoric and metonymic. Metaphoric type is a foundation of the totalitarian propaganda. …”
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The Role of Metonymy in Teaching the Spanish Verbal System to L2/FL Learners of Spanish by Alejandro Castañeda Castro, Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado

“…We focus on tense uses that involve metonymic processes, particularly, the meaning extensions in two Spanish past tenses: (1) the actional meaning of stative verbs when conveyed in pretérito indefinido (preterit), as in Pudimos comprar la casa 'We could buy the house', metonymically extended to Compramos la casa 'We bought the house'; and (2) the distancing use (uso citativo) of pretérito imperfecto (imperfect) when referring to current facts, as in ¿Cómo te llamabas? …”
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The struggle that has no name: race, space and policing in post-Duggan Britain by Elliott-Cooper, A

“…In this thesis, I argue that, over time, racist metonyms used to describe places racialised as black (Handsworth, Brixton etc.) and people racialised as black (Stephen Lawrence, Mark Duggan etc.), have led to the rise of metonymic anti-racism. …”

Gesturing Beyond Modernism: Frank O’Hara, Metonymy, and the Performing Self by Melih Levi

“…Though he is often celebrated for the swift responsiveness and spontaneity of his urban poetry, these metonymic homages reveal a poet with deeper and longer attachments in the object-world. …”
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A cognitive approach to the allegedly left-headed prefix verbs in German: by Heike Baeskow

“…It will be argued that nominal bases are metonymically reconceptualized as events inside the derivatives. …”
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On the production of metaphors and metonymies by Jordanian EFL learners: acquisition and implications by Zibin Aseel

“…This study explores the ability of Jordanian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to produce English metaphorical and metonymical expressions, using a completion task. It also examines whether the use of conceptual and linguistic knowledge of the participants’ first language, i.e. …”
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Étude d’un schéma d’évolution conceptuelle des ‘grams’ spatiaux en relation avec ahead et in front of en anglais by Hélène Margerie

“…Many grammatical items with a spatial and/or a temporal meaning (‘grams’) are the result of a process of grammaticalization which creates complex metaphorical and metonymical chains. Svorou proposes a single path of development which she illustrates through the preposition in front of. …”
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