Бердақ атындағы Қарақалпақ Мәмлекетлик университети шет тиллери факультети

fifty sails (instead of fifty ships), smiling years (the spring), to earn one's bread (means of living), to live by the pen (by writing). / get my living by the sweat of my brow (by difficulty); to succeed to a crown (to become a king)

If the interrelation between the dictionary and contextual meanings stands out clearly then we can speak about the expressiveness of metonymy and in this case we have genuine metonymy. In most traditional metonymies the contextual meanings are fixed in dictionaries and have a note – fig.

The expressiveness of metonymy may be different. Metonymy used in emotive prose is often called contextual and in this case is considered to be genuine and unexpected.

Metonymy as a genuine stylistic devise is used to achieve concreteness of description. By giving a specific detail connected with the phenomenon, the author evokes a concrete and life-like image and reveals certain feelings of his own.

In order to decipher the true meaning of genuine metonymy a broader context is needed. It’s necessary to understand the words in their proper meanings first. Only then its possible to grasp the metonymy.

“In the morning old Hitler – faced questioned me again”.

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Sometimes a genuine metonymy which stresses the most essential features of the character is so striking and unusual that the author finds it necessary to give. a kind of explanation:

"Then they came in. Two of them, a man with long fair moustaches and a silent dark man... Definitely, the moustache and I had nothing in common . (D. Leasing)
We have a feature of a man here which catches the eye, in this case, his appearance: the moustache stands for the man himself.

Metonymy established in the language is frequent in colloquial speech. For example: The whole table was stirring with impatience, i.e. the people sitting round the table were impatient. Green fingers, people who have skill for growing garden.

The functions of metonymy are different. The general function of metonymy is building up imagery and it main­ly deals with generalization of concrete objects. Hence nouns in metonymy are mostly used with the definite ar­ticle, or without it at all (the definite and zero articles ha­ve a generalizing function). Besides, metonymy may have a characterizing function when it is used to make the cha­racter's description significant (by mentioning only his hat and colour).