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- Title
METAPHORIC COMPLEXES: A SPANISH-ENGLISH CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN INTERACTION.
- Authors
MASEGOSA, ALICIA GALERA
- Abstract
This paper provides a detailed analysis of some of the most frequent proverbs and sayings in English and Spanish from a cognitive point of view. In our study we show the necessity to further develop conventional metaphoric and metonymic analysis into more complex patterns of interaction between the two. Furthermore, this paper stresses the relevance of subjectivity in cognitive conceptualizations; cross-linguistic differences arise in most of the expressions analysed, which show that cultural differences mark the choices of language. A more refined view of image metaphors is also provided in this paper, which claims the existence of a continuum ranging from one-shot purely imagistic to those that resemble image-schematic metaphors.
- Subjects
ENGLISH proverbs; SPANISH proverbs; METONYMS; COGNITIVE analysis; SUBJECTIVITY
- Publication
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (John Benjamins Publishing Co), 2010, Vol 23, p175
- ISSN
0213-2028
- Publication type
Article