Rhetorical figures in medicine: metonymies and their variants

Authors

  • Maria Eugenia D'Ottavio  Licenciatura en Psicopedagogía, Universidad del Gran Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
  • Alberto Enrique D’Ottavio Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Consejo de Investigaciones - Universidad Nacional de Rosario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/au.2021.22.e0022

Keywords:

figure, speech, metonymy, synecdoche, antonomasia, medicine

Abstract

Building on a previous paper, this one rescues determined figures of speech such as tropes (metonymy, synecdoche and antonomasia) that, useful in different medical and health area disciplines, have not been deepened or exemplified in this regard as the  metaphor has been.

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Published

2022-03-12

Issue

No. 22 (2021): Aula Universitaria

Section

Theoretical reflections