{"id":8418,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/metonymy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:29","slug":"metonymy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/metonymy\/","title":{"rendered":"Metonymy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A form of metaphor in which there is a substitution of a word referring to an attribute for the thing that is meant. &nbsp;Unlike a metaphor, however, which is derived from similarity, metonymy is based on contiguity (as is a synecdoche). &nbsp;Examples of a metonymical substitution for the real thing are &#8220;Survey research involves counting heads&#8221; and &#8220;Psychology conferences are all about talking heads&#8221; (instead of people in both cases). &nbsp;The danger with metonymy is that it can lead to excesses in typological thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"metaphor\">Metaphor<\/a>, <a href=\"synecdoche\">Synecdoche<\/a>, Tropes, <a href=\"typological_thinking\">Typological thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A form of metaphor in which there is a substitution of a word referring to an attribute for the thing that is meant. &nbsp;Unlike a metaphor, however, which is derived from similarity, metonymy is based on contiguity (as is a synecdoche). &nbsp;Examples of a metonymical substitution for the real thing are &#8220;Survey research involves counting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/metonymy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metonymy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}