Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving by Paolo Fortis

“…Kuna wooden figures, it is argued, are metonymically related to soul images and instantiate the more general Amerindian principle of a continuity of souls behind a discontinuity of bodies. …”
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Jane Austen’s <i>Persuasion</i>: Finding Companionate Marriage through Sickness and Health by Maureen Johnson

“…In Jane Austen’s last novel <i>Persuasion</i> (1817), embodiment and disability function metonymically to show the emotional suffering of its characters. …”
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Heart is for Love: Cognitive Salience and Visual Metonymies in Comics by Hubert Kowalewski

“…For example, when a musical note (the vehicle) is used in graphic narrative to refer metonymically to a melody (the target), the note is selected for the vehicle, because there is low conceptual distance between the two concepts.…”
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Le GN sans déterminant en « dialecte visuel » de l’allemand by Odile Schneider-Mizony

“…Some contemporary German-speaking authors exploit the discrepancy between the expected presence of the nominal group determinant (Gn) in German and the absence of an actualizer to code a German-Turkish variety, designated by the term Kiez, which metonymically means "language of the neighbourhoods". …”
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Censire l’esistente per creare il reale: l’origine indiana e la costruzione dei “rrom” by Maria Angelillo

“…In the conceptual scheme which the British created to understand and to act in India they reduced vastly complex codes and their associated meanings to a few metonyms. An example of  colonial way of organizing and representing Indian social identity is offered by the British construction of Indian Gypsies. …”
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A Pragmatic-Cognitive Approach to Brand Names: A Case Study of Rioja Wine Brands by Lorena Pérez Hernández

“…It is argued that a careful choice of the initial inventory of key notions as well as of the source concepts used in metonymic and metaphoric extensions would help to minimize the generation of negative connotations. …”
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Kunstnik ja nimi by Virve Sarapik

“…If in speech the author's name signifies the work, we may call it author metonymy. The metonymic use of the author's name occurs most frequently in art.…”
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Metaphor, metonymy and the nounness of proper names by Pierre J.L. Arnaud

“…The presence of the tropes is then investigated in antonomasia and three categories of onomastic data, nicknames, place-names and surnames, and their presence appears as frequent and diverse, which answers the above question. The 36 metonymic relations detected are grouped within the two taxonomies, which shows that some general categories have affinities with proper nouns and also confirms the value of multiple-level taxonomies.…”
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O estresse agudo de Orestes em Eurípides by Luciano Heidrich Bisol

“…The aim of this article is to verify the metonymic relationships between the concept of mania in classical antiquity and the concept of post-traumatic stress in contemporary psychology.…”
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REFERENTIAL METONYMY ACROSS LANGUAGES: WHAT CAN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND CONTRASTIVE LI NGUISTICS LEARN FROM EACH OTHER? by Rita Brdar-Szabó, Mario Brdar

“…This mutual cross- fertilization is demonstrated on the example of metonymically used names of capitals in English, German, Croatian aiid Hungarian.…”
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Space and sequence: a topography of "here" by Luka Bekavac

“…The common ground of these perspectives is the material framework of a codex: the corner of a room depicted in the majority of Here’s pages structurally limits the potentially endless diversity of content, while also metonymically playing upon its own isomorphic relation to the book as a three-dimensional object. …”
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Iraqi EFL University Students' Awareness of Metonymy by Muayad Mingher Al-Shemmery

“…Hence it aims at measuring the students’ proficiency in using metonymy and identifying the types of errors and their sources in recognizing and producing metonymic concepts. To achieve these goals, the study has hypothesized that most Iraqi EFL students face difficulties in using them. …”
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Assimilation et transferts sémantiques des emprunts lexicaux dans le discours médiatique by Fatima Zohra Benmostefa Harig

“…Hijab, at least in this metonymic sense, denominates not a non-existent reality in France, but a new reality; the label of "xénisme" appears once in partially inadequate. …”
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Le fleuve qui fait résonner le son du tambour : musique et patrimonialisation de la folia de reis au Minas Gerais (Brésil) by Lúcia Campos

“…Yet it is the “music-object” paradigm that prevails in the public policies, in line with the parameters of conventional cultural production: the performance formats are glorified, and one of the instruments, the viola, declared “intangible cultural heritage”, has a metonymic relationship with the practice of folia. …”
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Whole issue by Language Value

“…Ruiz Garrido Articles  Going beyond metaphtonymy: Metaphoric and metonymic complexes in phrasal verb interpretation. …”
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Fandangos, fandanguillos and fandangazos: Fernando el de Triana on popular and flamenco music by Cristina Cruces-Roldán

“…I argue there that conditions under which this book was published explain the oscillations between these popularist positions, and the degree of political accommodation between flamenco and Spanish nationalism, seen as a metonymic extension of “lo andaluz”—and foreshadowing the coming propaganda of the Franco regime.…”
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Polysémie standard et facettes de sens vues au travers du prisme de la diversité linguistique : entre la variation et la régularité by Océane Abrard, Dejan Stosic

“…Descriptive and statistical analyses of the data show that lexical facets do indeed manifest a greater regularity across the three languages than metaphoric and metonymic types of polysemy. These first results open new perspectives for both a better characterization and a better delineation of these two types of meaning alternation.…”
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What is an isogloss? by Johannes Kabatek

“… This short contribution discusses the term and concept of isogloss: the space where a linguistic phenomenon exists or, by metonymic extension, the line that separates a particular linguistic phenomenon from another. …”
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A Colexficational Analysis of Chū in Modern Chinese by Lincai Kuang

“…Metaphoric colexified extensions map onto the space, time, and state domain, following the order of “space > time > state”. As for the metonymic colexified extensions, the extended concepts result from different substructures of the image schema profiled in the motion event of chū. …”
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Figures of the Earth: Non-Human Phenomenology in Joyce by Ruben Borg

“…I then trace the elaboration of this theme in a cluster of rhetorical figures from the later novels—puns, clichés, and metonymic associations—that play on the senses of matrix, materiality, and the sex of the mother. …”
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