In The Context Of Modernism. Metonymy

Metonymy, used to be an classical category in the west, though it is not mentioned for a very long time, favors more and more attention among contemporary linguistic context and embodies some remarkable degree or advantages in this era. Therefore, studying of it is helpful to promote literary criticism practice more deeply and announce a great deal of culture phenomena at present. This text is divided into five parts as follows:I. prefaceWhatever in ordinary article or in theoretical research, the importance of metonymy has hinted its extremely critical meaning. For the difficulty of theory, its current research situation is still comparatively narrow, though the train of thought about metonymy has been greatly expanded. This text proposes the problems needing solving on the basis of the achievements forefathers have studied.II. metonymy's proposition and the definition of its intension.This part goes back to metonymy's historic trace gradually coming into theoretician's vision. Several theoreticians such as vico, Jakobson, Hawkcs went on comparatively detailed definition. Metonymy expresses in a disguised form among other spiritual field and culture phenomena. On the basis of this, i have summarized it combining modern cognitive linguistics.III. the traditional forms of metonymy in literature.This part, according to the inherent mechanism of metonymy, summarizes it as four respects. The first is that contiguous replace of metonymy obstructs people's general knowledge memory; Secondly, metonymy exists one kind leans towards straight structure, which lures readers' association to the lack; Moreover, metonymy has the legitimacy of absurd combination; Finally, metonymy serves for the forming process of metaphorical theme.IV. metonymy's existence form in the postmodernism linguistic context.1. metonymy communicates to postmodernism, and one expression lies in that destruction, the inherent spirit of postmodernism, is metonymic, which has overturned the metaphoric deep mode between signifier and signifierd; Another performance is that metonymy turns to be means organizing words in postmodernism. In the revel instantly of meaning of lacking, people's desires and wants are expressed by way of metonymy. In addition, in theory words aspect, metonymic thought impel theoretician to link up text and the world out of text, then announce some truth about history and society.2. postmodernism in the field of literature blows up new ripples or great waves. On the one hand, it is shown that go backwards from the metaphor in the field of creation because some writers find the disadvantage that metaphor overweight in literature traditions. So in some postmodernism literature, plane writing, part narration, intertextic imitation, and concatenation reflect the characteristic metonymy. On the other hand, Paul de man has put forward the subversion question to the metaphor's superiority, which guides my analysis to two cases.V. metonymy's inspired meaning and future prospectAll studies above manifest metonymy's significance to the realization of practice and the coming of theory in literature. Meanwhile, metonymy can not only realize some culture phenomena today, but also remind people to pursuing the harmonious relations between tool reason .and value reason. Certainly, as a category, study about metonymy need further deepening on how to have small place in mind explaining its function and value in vaster background.