Social significance of the metaphor

Author

Assistant Professor of Language and Grammar - Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Sajer Shaqra University - Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Metonymy is an art of rhetorical statement arts, the intent is often used to cover up and blinding about the intended meaning, and by mentioning it for much of the relationship between it and the necessity knowledge of a receiver , it then make it much sense and meaningful .
The metaphor linked to metonymy in production conditions and social context which is defined as a set of social circumstances surrounding the conduct and language that are taken into account when installing the metaphor image , which make a reference to the receiver .
And it refers metonymy link social context to the role of metonymy communicative and progress of the purposes in the context of use, add to that the time and place elements play an important role in the formation of metonymy especially that some metaphors associated with a particular environment and a certain time, It went out of the cycle of use to neglect circle even ceased to exist.
This study focused on studying the social significance of the significance of a metaphor derived from the social context and use, through studying the impact of social context on the installation of metonymy, and its role in the interpretation, and the types of metaphors according to social context.
 

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