Abstract

Metonymy has traditionally been defined as a figure of speech where one entity is used to stand for another contiguous entity. The study of this figure of speech has often been pursued as a type of metaphor. Moreover, the bulk of the research investigating metonymy, has examined its use in European languages. The development of cognitive linguistics, however, has resulted in a number of scholarly works that analyzed metonyms independently of metaphors, addressing their rhetorical effects in typologically diverse languages. This research looks into the function of metonyms in Classical Arabic by investigating their distribution in the Quran and pre-Islamic poetry. The study also examines the effect of genre type on metonymy distribution and rhetorical consequences.

Presenters

Yousif Elhindi
Professor of English, Linguistics Minor Director, Department of Literature and Language, East Tennessee State University, Tennessee, United States

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Communications and Linguistic Studies

KEYWORDS

Metonymy, Metaphor, Religious Texts, Secular Texts, Rhetorical Effect

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