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metonymy [mĕ-ton´ĭ-me] a disturbance of language seen in schizophrenia in which an inappropriate but related term is used instead of the correct one. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The dog's reappearance in other relationship poems is almost metonymical. Among hitherto unused resources Feyaerts and Brone mention, for example, Rachel Giora's Marked Informativeness Requirement and Optimal Innovation Hypothesis, and Ronald Langacker's definition of metonymy; they analyze some German metonymical phraseologisms and claim that the difficulty of processing them is measurable via the number of causal 'steps' that are necessary to reach the target concept that the metonymy is to stand for. 7) And yet the straightforward, metonymical reading which the film's opening scene invites soon becomes unsustainable. |
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