-
heavily on
nonlinguistic metonyms,
while surrealist art
relied more on metaphors.
Lakoff and
Turner argued that all
words are
metonyms: "Words
stand for the...
- used as a
metonym for the country's government.
Since metonymy – the
process by
which metonyms are formed – is a
productive process, new
metonyms can always...
- The
cinema of the
United States,
primarily ****ociated with
major film
studios collectively referred to as Hollywood, has
significantly influenced the global...
- upon
which the game of
baseball is pla****. The term can also be used as a
metonym for a
baseball park. The term
sandlot is
sometimes used,
although this...
- to: Hollywood, Los Angeles, a
neighborhood in
California Hollywood, a
metonym for the
cinema of the
United States Hollywood may also
refer to: Hollywood...
-
Kasumigaseki district in Chiyoda, and the name
Kasumigaseki is
often used as a
metonym for the ****anese
national civil service.
Tokyo has 25
constituencies for...
- "K Street" has
become a
metonym for
lobbying in the
United States, the same way Wall
Street in New York City
became a
metonym for the U.S.
financial markets...
-
attracting numerous high
technology start-up companies, as
Silicon Alley, the
metonym for New York City's
entrepreneurship ecosystem, has
expanded from Lower...
- Hanja: 大韓民國; lit. Great Han Republic) is
sometimes used by
South Koreans as a
metonym to
refer to the
Korean ethnicity (or "race") as a whole,
rather than just...
- the
Westminster political system, the
Civil Service –
often known by the
metonym of
Whitehall –
forms an
inseparable part of the
British government. The...
