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The Metonymy of “Tay”(Hand) in Vietnamese

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<em>Traditional linguistics treats metaphor and metonymy as a kind of rhetoric in language. But now many linguists have proved that metaphor and metonymy are not only a means of modification, but also a way for humans to understand things. Based on the concept of metonymy, this paper uses the methods of metonymy and implicit metaphor to analyze the word “Tay” (hand) in Vietnamese.</em>
Title: The Metonymy of “Tay”(Hand) in Vietnamese
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<em>Traditional linguistics treats metaphor and metonymy as a kind of rhetoric in language.
But now many linguists have proved that metaphor and metonymy are not only a means of modification, but also a way for humans to understand things.
Based on the concept of metonymy, this paper uses the methods of metonymy and implicit metaphor to analyze the word “Tay” (hand) in Vietnamese.
</em>.

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