转喻是一事物基于时间、空间、逻辑等方面的相关、相邻性而从另一事物中获得意义的文化行为。这种行为使意义的获得过程体现出某种独特性,对文学而言,便是营造出迥异于常的审美效果。转喻的相邻性替换阻遏了人们的常识性记忆,一方面使语言变得鲜明简洁,另一方面造成一种陌生化的效果。转喻还具有悖谬组合的合法性,体现了语言的诗性功能。另外,转喻是隐喻的马前卒,为隐喻的主题构成提供富有力度的证明以及适当的表达。总之,转喻同隐喻一样为文学的表现带来了颖悟和惊奇,它与文学传统的关系值得进一步深入挖掘。 Metonymy is a kind of cultural behavior based on the correlation of time, space and logic, and the adjacentness, and obtaining the meaning from another thing. This kind of behavior makes the acquisition of meaning reflect some uniqueness, and for literature, it creates a very different aesthetic effect. The substitution of adjacency in metonymy suppresses people’s commonsense memories, making the language simple and concise on the one hand, and defaulting on the other. Metonymy also has the legitimacy of the combination of absurdity and embodies the poetic function of language. In addition, metonymy is a paramount metaphor for the proverbial metaphor, providing rich evidence of the thematic composition and proper expression. In short, metonymy, like metaphor, brings enlightenment and surprise to literary performance, and its relationship with literary tradition deserves further digging.