@article{Adam_2018, title={WHAT’S IN A BILL GATES: A Corpus Linguistics Study of the Metonymic Use of Proper name}, volume={4}, url={https://prologue.sastra.uniba-bpn.ac.id/index.php/jurnal_prologue/article/view/19}, DOI={10.36277/jurnalprologue.v4i1.19}, abstractNote={<p>The case of proper name is unique. In one hand, a proper name can<br>only refer to a specific entity, in the other hand, it also subject to<br>figurative use. Bill Gates, the name of the Microsoft founder is one<br>example of how proper noun are used not to refer to a single<br>individual, but is extended to refer to specific properties which<br>possesses by Bill Gates.. This research aims to identify the transferred<br>properties embedded in the use of proper names i.e, Bill Gates<br>figuratively and the objective of using the name as metonymy. The<br>research is qualitative; the data are taken from Corpus of<br>Contemporary American English (COCA), in order to achieve thirty<br>data, the amount of 422 data from COCA is examined. The result<br>shows, that from 30 metonymic use of Bill Gates, there are ten<br>associative properties assigned to the metonymic use of Bill Gates,<br>which are a very famous person, the richest person, a very successful<br>entrepreneur (In Computer Technology), a successful drop-out college,<br>philanthropist, a pioneer of particular field, a computer geek, an<br>individual with a brilliant ideas at the first stage of business, multiple<br>properties assigned, and a very successful person in his field.</p> <p>Key Words: Bill Gates, Metonymy, Proper Name, Corpus Linguistics,</p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, journal={Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature}, author={Adam, Muhammad}, year={2018}, month={Feb.}, pages={46–78} }