A semantic study of Iraqi students’ production of metonymic words

Abstract EN

Metonymy is a type of figurative language that plays an important role in everyday communication as well as in literary work .

It helps us to express ourselves effortlessly as it provides a mental access to entities or objects .

The main aim of this study is to investigate fourth-year students’ production of metonymy at the College of Education for Humanities and the College of Arts in the academic year 2020_2021 .

A diagnostic test is used in order to investigate students’ production of metonymy .

The test is applied to some students chosen randomly .

Analysis , discussion and commentary are also presented based on statistical methods .

Findings show that students have major problems concerning the production of metonymic words.