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"All my sour-sweet days I will lament and love" – a comparative analysis of metaphors with the basic taste adjectives in Polish and English
Author(s) -
Magdalena Zawisławska,
Marta Falkowska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
cognitive studies | études cognitives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-2397
pISSN - 2080-7147
DOI - 10.11649/cs.1675
Subject(s) - taste , lament , philosophy , linguistics , food science , chemistry , theology
All my sour-sweet days I will lament and love – a comparative analysis of metaphors with the basic taste adjectives in Polish and English This paper provides a comparative analysis of verbal synesthetic metaphors with the basic taste adjectives in Polish and English: slodki / sweet , gorzki / bitter , kwaśny / sour , slony / salty . Since taste seems to be an ideal candidate for a universal, biologically determined source of metaphors, the authors seek to verify the hypothesis of metaphor embodiment. The corpus-based analysis of nominal phrases with basic Polish and English taste adjectives indicates that cultural influences on the metaphorical mapping, as well as the importance of the target conceptual domains, must be taken into account. All my sour-swet days I will lament and love – kontrastywna analiza metafor z przymiotnikami oznaczającymi podstawowe smaki w jezyku polskim i angielskim W artykule analizowane są metafory synestezyjne z przymiotnikami określającymi podstawowe smaki w jezyku polskim i angielskim: slodki/sweet, gorzki/bitter, kwaśny/sour, slony/salty . Percepcja smakowa, uwarunkowana biologicznie, wydaje sie dobrym przykladem uniwersalnej domeny źrodlowej w procesie metaforyzacji. Celem pracy jest weryfikacja kognitywnej teorii o metaforze ucieleśnionej oraz sprawdzenie, w jakim stopniu na proces metaforyzacji wplywają czynniki kulturowe.

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