Some instances of kināyah leave the person or subject unexpressed as a full noun, while the context and associated objects still identify the intended possessor.
When honor is said to lie within someone’s garments, a pronoun or preceding context may establish whose honor is meant.
The absence of an explicit proper name does not defeat the classification. The question is whose possession of the quality the discourse is intended to affirm.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
Some instances of kināyah leave the person or subject unexpressed as a full noun, while the context and associated objects still identify the intended possessor.
When honor is said to lie within someone’s garments, a pronoun or preceding context may establish whose honor is meant.
The absence of an explicit proper name does not defeat the classification. The question is whose possession of the quality the discourse is intended to affirm.