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“Apposition,” “Metonymy,” & Synecodche


In English what's the difference between forward and towardWhat's the difference between these negative sentences?analyze the structure of a long sentenceIs “Like Niobe, all tears” an apposition?Diff between Top 5 and 5 TopA “model plane” or a “plane model”: What's the difference?The difference between “given that” and “provided that” (CAE book reference)Some substitutions are more general than others (are). Which is better?What's the difference between “I…” and “I have…”?About the structure of ''There are/is''













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    Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

    – John Lawler
    6 hours ago











  • So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

    – Doug
    43 mins ago











  • No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

    – John Lawler
    34 mins ago















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    Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

    – John Lawler
    6 hours ago











  • So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

    – Doug
    43 mins ago











  • No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

    – John Lawler
    34 mins ago













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    Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

    – John Lawler
    6 hours ago











  • So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

    – Doug
    43 mins ago











  • No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

    – John Lawler
    34 mins ago












  • 1





    Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

    – John Lawler
    6 hours ago











  • So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

    – Doug
    43 mins ago











  • No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

    – John Lawler
    34 mins ago







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Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

– John Lawler
6 hours ago





Apposition is a grammatical term -- it indicates the grammatical relation between two nouns or noun phrases, like my son, the musician. Normally it indicates that the two refer to the same individual. The other two aren't grammatical. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it's a term mostly valuable because almost nobody knows what it mean,s but it sounds very Greek and therefore is impressive. Metonymy is a variety of metaphoric reference in which a part of a thing is used to symbolize the whole.

– John Lawler
6 hours ago













So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

– Doug
43 mins ago





So the distinction is that "apposition" is a "grammatical term" while metonymy and synecdoche are metaphors and tools for interpretation. But, they're all similar in function. Metonymy is putting one word or thing for another & Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, while Apposition are simply two nouns referring to each other in that one explains the other. Therefore, it seems all 3 function similarly where one noun is used to explain or identify another noun. Would that be correct?

– Doug
43 mins ago













No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

– John Lawler
34 mins ago





No, there's no "in that one explains the other" with apposition. What it gets used for is irrelevant. On the other hand, metonymy (nobody uses synecdoche to mean anything; don't bother with it) doesn't depend on how it's done -- it could be apposition, but it could be a relative clause or an adverb or a noun complement. How it's done is irrelevant. It's like comparing a red car to a getaway car -- they're not the same kind of "car" and so they don't compare.

– John Lawler
34 mins ago










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