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Performing what? Exploring and expanding the notion of synecdoche in performance management practice.

open access: yes, 2018
The corpus of scholarly literature on performance management largely neglects its role as a rhetorical device. Yet the performance narrative is truly an art of persuasion: it employs master tropes in order to discover warrantable beliefs.
Drew, J, Grant, BJ, O'Flynn, J
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"Not one word of it made any sense" [Elektronisk resurs] : Hyperbolic Synecdoche in the British National Corpus

open access: yes, 2016
A distinct metonymic pattern was discovered in the course of conducting a corpus-based study of figurative uses of WORD. The pattern involved examples such as Not one word of it made any sense and I agree with every word.
Ädel, Annelie,
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