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Znaczenie porównań standardowych
The meaning of standard comparisons

Author(s): Joanna Zaucha
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Keywords: meaning

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to specify the semantic capacity the phrases; 'głupi jak but, łysy jak kolano, ciężki jak ołów' ('stupid like a shoe, bald like a knee, heavy like led') called here standard comparisons (in the Polish abbreviation PSs). As the detailed analysis shows, the existing suggestions for explications are not equivalent of PSs.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 92-102
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish