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> You would say that someone that does that is 'acting like Steve Jobs' though, no? Right, metonymy is a rhetorical device that can be used for figures such as
by chimeracoder 14y ago
> You would say that someone that does that is 'acting like Steve Jobs' though, no?
Right, metonymy is a rhetorical device that can be used for figures such as _why, but that doesn't mean that the figure is [just] a metonymic structure and not a person.
- zem 14y agoare you saying that "_why" is a metonym for the Man Himself? i don't think that's valid (in a linguistic sense) - he was _why in a much deeper sense than "_why" being some small part of him that was used as a stand-in for the whole. a metonym can derive from a role, but the role is not the metonym.