A Cognitive Image of Love in Expressions Describing the End of a Relationship in English, Polish, and Italian Phraseology
A Cognitive Image of Love in Expressions Describing the End of a Relationship in English, Polish, and Italian Phraseology
Author(s): Małgorzata KarczewskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: Cognitive Metaphor; Love and Relationship; Image of Love; Contrastive Study;
Summary/Abstract: Love, as a strong human emotion, plays a significant role in all cultures. The traces of this fact can be found in different languages, in numerous sayings and proverbs. An interesting part of cultural and linguistic heritage are cognitive metaphors in which an abstract idea is juxtaposed with a more tangible, concrete one with the aim to facilitate the understanding of the nature of the former. In the article, cognitive metaphors related to the end of relationship are traced in the English, Polish, and Italian languages. The study aims at showing how this event is depicted and whether there are similarities between the languages in question.
Journal: Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Philology, English
- Issue Year: XXII/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 73-86
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English