Lewin-Jones, Jenny; Webb, Mike - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 4, pp. 18-18
'Place metonyms' are figures of speech which use place names as shortcuts, for example Whitehall to mean the British civil service, or Europe for the institutions of the European Union. The paper examines place metonyms in the headlines of two British newspapers, the Sun and the Guardian. Using...