语言学

A category and its members stand in a kind of relation .

＊ Category for a member of the category : the pill (口服避孕药) for “ birth control pill ” (范畴--成员)

＊ Member of a category for the category : aspirin (解热镇痛药) for “any pain-relieving tablet” (成员--范畴)

（f）Category-and-Property ICM : （范畴及属性转喻）

Properties may either be seen metaphorically as possessed objects or metonymically as parts of an object .

＊Category for defining property : jerk (蠢人)for “stupidity”（愚蠢）（范畴--属性） .

＊Defining property for category : blacks for “black people” (属性--范畴)

（g） Reduction ICM :

A final type of a “Part for Whole” metonymy is found in the reduction of the form of a sign .

＊ Part of a form for the whole form : crude for “crude oil ” . (2) Parts of an ICM : (a) Action ICM :

It involves a variety of participants which may be related to the predicate expressing the action or to teach each other : ＊ ＊

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