PROVERBS AND METAPHORS IN THE ENGLISH CULINARY LANGUAGE
PROVERBES ET MÉTAPHORES DANS LE LANGAGE CULINAIRE ANGLAIS

Summary/Abstract: Food is “an essential source to survival with great symbolic force, food has been central to human history”. (Fellner, 2013: 243). The aim of this article is to emphasize the strong relationship between food and cooking, on the one hand, and language and communication, on the other. Culinary words and concepts infiltrated local sayings and proverbs in English culture, thus becoming important pieces of cultural and historical evidence, if reliably dated. Culinary metaphors are equally important, as they reflect and reveal cultural and social realities.

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