On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic Study of English Synonyms of ‘Skinny’/‘Fatty’.

Título:
On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic Study of English Synonyms of ‘Skinny’/‘Fatty’.
Autor:
Grząśko, Agnieszka
Materia:
Linguistics; Linguistics; Semantics
Editor:
Peter Lang
Descripción:
The author studies the synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ from the cognitive linguistic perspective. The quantum of the analysed lexical items is subdivided into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia.
Identificadores:
E-ISBN: 9783653059847
Colección:
Peter Lang