Littlemore (2015) claims that metonymy can perform a wide range
of communicative functions in different forms and modes of expressions. This
paper examines the visual metonymies observed in Green Book, the 2019 Best
Picture Oscar Academy Award-winner, elucidating how the movie integrates
its narrative with visual metonymy to express abstract and profound themes.
Exploring various types of visual metonymy utilized in this movie, this paper
reveals how the visual metonymy contributes to the communication effect of
a movie. The paper also demonstrates that analysis of visual metonymy in movies
enriches the current research on both visual metonymy and movie studies.

1. Introduction
2. Method and Reseearch Background
    2.1. Referential Function
    2.2. Highlighting
    2.3. Cohesion and Coherence
    2.4. Exophoric Reference
    2.5. Irony
    2.6. Euphemism and Vagueness
    2.7. Hyperbole
3. Visual Metonymy by Function and Their Contribution to the MovieGreen Book
    3.1. Highlighting and Irony
    3.2. Referential and Exophoric
    3.3. Hyperbole
    3.4. Cohesion and Coherence
    3.5. Euphemism or Vagueness
    3.6. Findings of the Study
4. Conclusion
References

• Hongwei Liu(Hebei University of Engineering)
• Youngju Choi(Chosun University) Corresponding author