Various Faces of Animal Metaphor in English and Polish
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Author_Robert Kieltyka
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- ISBN 9783631665138
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
