Metonimia as the mechanism of nomination in texts of scientific and technical style (on the material of Russian and English languages)

Metonymy continues to stimulate scientific interest and remains one of the major concerns to numerous studies. This linguistic mean is being described as a highly specialized figure of speech and the primary method of human cognition and intellection. This article serves as an attempt to describe metonymy, its varieties, functions and formation mechanisms based on scientific and technical texts.