Various Faces of Animal Metaphor in English and Polish

Author:   Robert Kiełtyka
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   13
ISBN:  

9783631665138


Pages:   271
Publication Date:   16 December 2015
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Our Price $127.56 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Various Faces of Animal Metaphor in English and Polish


Add your own review!

Overview

This book is dedicated to the issue of animal metaphor together with its intricacies and internal complexity. Its main objective is to present a unified picture of the role animal terms have played in the shape of English and other natural languages. The author addresses such aspects of animal metaphor as the problem of animal names used as surnames, so-called verbal and adjectival zoosemy, or the use of names of animal body parts with reference to people. The cognitively-oriented analysis is carried out in terms of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which is capable of accounting for semantic change in a panchronic perspective. The results show that virtually any facet of humanity, which is beyond the norm, may be viewed, perceived, conceived of and expressed in animal terms.

Full Product Details

Author:   Robert Kiełtyka
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9783631665138


ISBN 10:   363166513
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   16 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Contents: Metaphor as a Source of Cognitively Motivated Semantic Change – Complexity, Multidirectionality and Universality of Animal Metaphor – Transparency and Opaqueness of Zoosemy – Categorisation of Verbal and Adjectival Zoosemy – Zoosemy as Metaphor-Metonymy Interaction – Foodsemy as a Sub-type of Zoosemy – Various Mechanisms of Zoosemy-based Transfers.

Reviews

Author Information

Robert Kiełtyka is an Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include diachronic semantics, cognitive linguistics and morphology-semantics interface.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

RGJUNE2025

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List