Metonymy, synecdoche, and the disorders of contiguity
Author: Samuel P. Whitsitt
Publisher: libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 886292464X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1956 Roman Jakobson put metaphor and metonymy on equal footing, theoretically, when he coupled them. He noted, however, that metonymy was not attended as it should have been, and called this a "contiguity disorder". This study attempts to understand what this disorder might be, and does so by shifting focus away from the couple, metaphor and metonymy, to that of metonymy and synecdoche. It is here, between these two "lesser" tropes, that one can see how the metonymy, the trope of contiguity, or the trope of a certain arbitrariness,