Conceptual precisions in the definition of synecdoche as a metonymic trope

Abstract

The concept of synecdoche is specified in this paper according to the interrelationship of its constitutive properties: semiotic inclusion and oblique denotation. Synecdoche is analysed as a particular metonymic procedure, but distinguished from this trope by the relation between the denotatives poles on which it acts on the pre-syntagmatic level.