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Las metáforas frutales en el léxico y la fraseología del español
Fruit Metaphors in Spanish Lexicon and Phraseology

Author(s): Antonio Pamies Bertrán
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Studiów Iberyjskich i Iberoamerykańskich, Wydział Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Keywords: polysemy; phraseology; metaphor; ethnobotany; fruits

Summary/Abstract: Natural languages include a network of associated concepts, which allow creating and /or understanding new metaphors, based on two relatively systematic types of models: archimetaphors and culturemes. An example of the productivity of both macromodels of figurative language is the concept of fruit, both as a source domain and as a target domain, that undergo the interaction between multiple linguistic metaphors and extralinguistic symbolism.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 89-99
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Spanish