Daily Archives: September 23, 2007

Metonymic

By TPP | Published: September 23, 2007
For lovers of words, and people passionate about academic descriptions of photographs and photography, this is yesterday’s big new word, encountered at Durham Uni’s Locating Photography conference. A metonym is a word (or photograph) that relates to one thing while it refers within its content, to another. Dictionary.com gives these examples: ‘Washington is a metonym for [...]
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