{"id":4630,"date":"2014-01-07T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:45:30","slug":"metonymy-into-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"Metonymy into metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were all metaphors originally metonomies? This is at least what some deconstructivists argue.\u00a0<em>Watergate<\/em><em> <\/em>was originally the name of a building, and was then used metonymically to refer to a political scandal which was associated with that building. Since then, part of the word,\u00a0<em>gate<\/em>, has come to be used to refer to other scandals such as\u00a0<em>Irangate<\/em>. In the future, <em>gate<\/em><em> <\/em>might become completely dissociated from the building and from the original scandal and become a metaphor for scandal. (Schwarz, Daniel R.: J<em>ames Joyce: The Dead.<\/em> Boston and New York: Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s, 1994: 212-3)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were all metaphors originally metonomies? This is at least what some deconstructivists argue.\u00a0Watergate was originally the name of a building, and was then used metonymically to refer to a political scandal which was associated with that building. Since then, part &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=4630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,469,826],"tags":[1688,1690,1691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}