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Pesticides and the perils of synecdoche in the history of science and environmental history

History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching, 2019
When the Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT late in 1972, environmentalists hailed the decision. Indeed, the DDT ban became a symbol of the power of environmental activism in America.
F. Davis
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Synecdoche's Obloquy: Beckett and the Performance of Indecency

, 2020
In Beckett's Ireland, the practice of censorship was bound up with the workings of literary genre. The fact that printed matter was subject to censorship, while theatre was not, meant that the censor played a role in maintaining the distinction between ...
Rebecca Kastleman
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Performing What? Exploring and Expanding the Notion of Synecdoche in Performance Management Practice

Public Administration Quarterly, 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.
J. Drew, Janine O’Flynn, Bligh Grant
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Synecdoche and Stigma

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007
In the portion of their reply directed to me, Professor Asch and Dr. Wasserman helpfully develop the synecdoche argument by highlighting its connections to stigma. I understand them to distinguish the situation of a woman making a decision concerning her pregnancy informed by prenatal testing from a woman making a similar decision informed by ...
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Synecdoche – an underestimated macrofigure?

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2013
This article analyses the constructive potential of synecdoche as a text-building mechanism. All too often not properly distinguished from its close and better-known relative, metonymy, synecdoche deserves to be treated as a separate figure, with its own individual function to perform.
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Phylogenetic Synecdoche Demonstrates Optimality of Subsampling and Improves Recovery of the Blaberoidea Phylogeny

bioRxiv, 2019
Phylogenomics seeks to use next-generation data to robustly infer an organism’s evolutionary history. Yet, the practical caveats of phylogenomics motivates investigation of improved efficiency, particularly when quality of phylogenies are questionable ...
Dominic A. Evangelista, Sabrina Simon, Megan M. Wilson, A. Kawahara, M. Kohli, J. Ware, B. Wipfler, O. Béthoux, P. Grandcolas, F. Legendre   +9 more
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Sensation and Synecdoche

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1972
Sometimes in THE CONCEPT OF MIND Gilbert Ryle describes what he is up to in a way which is quite unhelpful. The following passage will serve as an example of what I mean:To talk of a person’s mind is not to talk of a repository which is permitted to house objects that something called ‘the physical world’ is forbidden to house; it is to talk of the ...
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Fleshing the Archive of Witches: A Creative/Critical Case Study of Somatic Synecdoche

Feminist Studies, 2023
Kristen E. Nelson
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SCREENSHOTS: SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

Earthly Delights, 2021

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Synecdoche in Reverse: America’s Transhemispheric Classics

Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas, 2021

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