Metonymy

Japanese: 換喩 - かんゆ

A figure of speech based on the contiguity of things. In English, it is called metonymy. While a metaphor is an expression that sets up an equivalence relationship between two things with different attributes and gives one attribute to another, a metonym is a rhetorical device that expresses one thing by its own attributes or by something closely related to it. Examples of this relationship include a container expressing its contents (``food on a plate''), a cause expressing an effect (``Van Gogh and Van Gogh's artwork''), and a concrete object expressing an abstract object (``Nagatacho is the political world''). →Metaphor

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Japanese:

ものごとの隣接性に基づいた比喩。英語ではmetonymy。隠喩が，異なる属性を持つ二つのものに等価関係を設定し，あるものに別の属性を与える表現法なのにたいし，換喩は，あるものを，そのものの属性，またはそれに密接な関係のあるもので表現する修辞法を指す。この関係性には，容器で中身（〈皿で料理〉），原因で結果（〈ゴッホでゴッホの作品〉），具体物で抽象物（〈永田町で政界〉）を表すなどの場合がある。→比喩

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