"In medieval times the dish was referred to as an estouffet. The current name is a diminutive of the Languedoc cassolo – a cooking pot – according to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassoulet
#etymology #metonymy

Portrait of the speaker Guendalina Reul

Upcoming Thursday:
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
15.01., 12-2pm, GA04/187 & Zoom
Linguistics
Guendalina Reul (Köln):
The Multilayered Nature of Ad Hoc Metonymy: Evidence from EEG
#Linguistics #CognitiveScience #GuendalinaReul #EEG #Metonymy #Language #UniKöln #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Sprachwissenschaft

"Gashapon is used for both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them." #metonymy

#Metonymy
#WordOfTheDay
#WritingCommunity
@JamJarPublish
@Amatoryq
#Amatory
#Emoetry

Apparently it's now under control and I hope everyone is ok.

But for a moment there, wow David Lodge levels of #metonymy

#metonymy 😩

A week in metonymy: From the personal to the political Last week was metonymy week for me. In this post I’ll tell you three stories about metonymy, all related to a train ride to and from Oxford with my husband – a sort of anniversary trip, as we met t…

From coffee to the White House - how metonymies support and destroy our way of life #metonymy #linguistics makingsciencepublic.com/2025/10/26/a...

A week in metonymy: From the personal to the political Last week was metonymy week for me. In this post I’ll tell you three stories about metonymy, all related to a train ride to and from Oxford with my husband – a sort of anniversary trip, as we met t…

This week's slightly delayed post is about #metonymy. I collected examples on my travels to Oxford, from a coffee cup to the White House. #linguistics makingsciencepublic.com/2025/10/26/a...

And by Ottawa, they mean the federal government. #Metonymy

🧭🤩 Fooling around this April 1st? You might just find your way again by reading my (open-access) article, Making a Cardinal Point:The Conceptualization of EAST and WEST in Hungarian Public Discourse, published in Metaphor and Symbol. #metonymy #politicaldiscourse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#synecdoche #metonymy

Original post on c.im

#synecdoche involves replacing a specific part of something with the whole.

#metonymy involves replacing a word or phrase with a related one.

For example, “stars and stripes” is a synecdoche for the American flag because these are part of the flag.

On the other hand, “the crown” is a […]

Deep Water: ‘Nothing is wrong,’ by Kate Horowitz Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Nothing is wrong with the windows...

www.pressherald.com/2024/10/04/d...

#Poetry #Metonymy #Rain

Mud, metaphors and politics: Meaning-making during the 2021 German floods - Making Science Public This post is a brief summary of an article Rusi Jaspal and I wrote in the aftermath of the 2021 floods in Germany. Many more floods have happened since then in many more parts of the world. The article was published online in 2023 and has only just come out in print, in June 2024, ...

For weekend readers, a post on the intertwining of language and politics during the 2021 German floods #metaphor #metonymy blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Mud, metaphors and politics: Meaning-making during the 2021 German floods - Making Science Public This post is a brief summary of an article Rusi Jaspal and I wrote in the aftermath of the 2021 floods in Germany. Many more floods have happened since then in many more parts of the world. The article was published online in 2023 and has only just come out in print, in June 2024, ...

For weekend readers, a post on the intertwining of language and politics during the 2021 German floods #metaphor #metonymy blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2024...

When #metonymy goes wrong (at an exam board): "If the student doesn't resubmit her dissertation, she will be terminated - sorry, her registration will be terminated."

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Woman shopping with friend and toddler in Aldi.
Friend: Have you tried these wholemeal loaves with seeds?
Woman: Grandad won't have them. Reminds him of Bielsa.
Friend: ???
Woman: He's a bit autistic. Seeds, Leeds, Bielsa.
#metonymy #LUFC
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Freshly baked for you: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age. Edited volume with top contributors :-)
#metaphor #metonymy @AelcoSpain @aelco2018 @LangCognition @DrLauraACariola @LingCognitive
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#metaphor and #metonymy interact in visual campaigns. Metonymy, in particular, is used to convey abstract concepts through concrete entities that can be graphically depicted (medical expertise, googled info etc). Bolognesi & Vernillo, to appear. Stay tuned!
@VismetCorpus

On the brief #governmentshutdown2018, @TheEconomist uses a brilliant #visualmetaphor #Symbols #metonymy @VismetCorpus #rocknresearch #VisualArt