Cognition and Society. Treatment Forms at the Dawn of Feudalism: Señor and the Honorific Formulas with -ísimo | Zendy

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Cognition and Society. Treatment Forms at the Dawn of Feudalism: Señor and the Honorific Formulas with -ísimo

Author(s) -

Andrzej Zieliński

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

verba hispanica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2350-4250

pISSN - 0353-9660

DOI - 10.4312/vh.26.1.193-209

Subject(s) - feudalism , honorific , superlative , metaphor , scale (ratio) , suffix , psychology , social psychology , sociology , literature , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , political science , law , geography , art , cartography , politics

The objective of this study is to delve into the origin of two treatment formulas: señor, from senior “older”, and those with the superlative suffix. Both are very closely linked to the imposition of a new social model, feudalism, which is characterized by organizing itself on a vertical social scale, coinciding with the scale of quantification characteristic of degree expressions. In both acts the conceptual metaphor is more is up.

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