ABSTRACT
Since the concepts of interdiscourse and memory are sometimes overlapped and become almost equivalent and cover different discursive functions, I intend to examine the issue by using the concepts of metaphor, metonymy, and transversal discourse, as theorized mainly by Michel Pêcheux (2011 [1984]) in Metaphor and interdiscourse and Thomas Herbert in Remarks for a General Theory of Ideologies (PÊCHEUX, 1995a). The hypothesis is that interdiscourse refers to metaphor as displacement of the pre-constructed from one discursive region to another. Meanwhile, as metonymy is the imposition of another effect from a “part” of the discursive object, metonymy organizes another meaning-relation network through transversal discourse and, therefore, another axis of memory., I will take the cases of ‘mole’ and ‘fire’ (from Michel Pêcheux) as a basis for argumentation and discuss the case of ‘God’.
Metaphor; interdiscourse; metonymy; memory; transverse-discourse