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Download full textLecolle, Michelle – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This paper describes certain metonymies that are often employed in the daily French press. In such metonymies, a human being or a set of individuals are referred to by means of the name of an institutional location (i.e., a capital city, a ministry in a western country, the name of a country). These metonymic patterns do not seem to be used by…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Journalism
