A Comparative Study of Metonymy and Synecdoche

作     者：凌红 

作者机构：辽河石油职业技术学院辽宁盘锦124013 

出 版 物：《海外英语》 (Overseas English)

年 卷 期：2013年第3X期

页      面：266-268页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：metonymy synecdoche similarity difference 

摘      要：Among the modern rhetorical devices,metonymy and synecdoche are two important figures of speech,which are analogous to each other for both use the name of one thing for that of something *** is to say,both of the rhetorical devices involve *** the two concepts are *** emphasizes on using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is *** is a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole,an individual for a class,a material for a thing,or the reverse of any of *** making a comparative study of these two through the connotation and category,the author summarizes that:they are two independent figures of speech.