Open AccessFigurative Meaning in Cultural Lexis: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Isabel Negro Alousque
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
odisea revista de estudios ingleses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i10.308
Subject(s) - lexis , linguistics , meaning (existential) , vocabulary , humanities , historical linguistics , philosophy , art , epistemology
The relationship between language and culture has been a postulate of mo- dern linguistics since the Sapir-Whorfi an hypotheses. Such connection is particularly noticeable in lexis. The purpose of this article is to study the lexis belonging to cultural domains through the analysis of the English vocabulary from the domain of the weather and to examine the fi gurative meaning of the lexical units from this domain.
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