The Metonymy of “Tay”(Hand) in Vietnamese

Abstract

Traditional linguistics treats metaphor and metonymy as a kind of rhetoric in language. But now many linguists have proved that metaphor and metonymy are not only a means of modification, but also a way for humans to understand things. Based on the concept of metonymy, this paper uses the methods of metonymy and implicit metaphor to analyze the word “Tay” (hand) in Vietnamese.