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Metaphtonymy

The phenomenon, studied by Louis Goossens, in which metaphor and metonymy interact.

While Goossens identified a number of logically possible ways in which metaphor and metonymy could potentially interact, he found that only two of these logically possible interactions were commonly attested.

These are known as metaphor from metonymy and metonymy within metaphor.

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