Figurative language
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From Jesse's seminar 1-17
- materialism as metonymy (Freedgood 2006)
- synecdoche: part standing for whole, "all hands on deck," even more proximate than metonymy
- metaphor: comparison based on implied resemblance (I got "bulldozed")
- simile: comparison based on stated resemblance using "like" or "as"
- metonymy - proximate association, "re-naming"
- the White House is not a part of the presidency
- it can be arbitrary, proximity doesn't need to be literal: "Madonna": "the 80s," "Like a Prayer," "Virgin Mary" all conceptually proximate
- Dickens loves metonymy, loves association
- slippery: can be an infinite set of associations
- use can vary too: stream of consciousness can model metonymy but the difference is, are you using it to contain meaning (metonymy doesn't do containment)
- free association can disrupt meaning, using "crown" for sovereignty but you hear "dental crown"
- Eliot hates losing control this way; Dickens loves this play
- metonymy is good at adding but not at taking away
- metonym is produced by proximity not necessarily resemblance
- Barthes: a lot of objects are not there to produce metonymic effects except with "the real world" (The Reality Effect)
