Personification and animation of the concepts <death> and <flife> in Polish and Hungarian in the light of phraseological relationships and survey materials Cover Image
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Personifikacja i animizacja pojęcia <śmierć> i <życie> w języku polskim i węgierskim w świetle związków frazeologicznych i materiałów ankietowych
Personification and animation of the concepts <death> and <flife> in Polish and Hungarian in the light of phraseological relationships and survey materials

Author(s): Janusz Bańczerowski , Dorota Dziewońska-Kiss
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: the linguistic image of the world; death; life; personification; animalization; conceptualization;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how speakers of Polish and Hungarian conceptualize the concept of <death> and <life>, more specifically how they impersonate and animalize it. In this paper, the authors focus only on examples in which the lexemes death and life are treated as a living organism or its parts.

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 15-25
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish