The article focuses on implications of animal metaphors in everyday language taking into account the pragmatic approach to verbal metaphor based on the hypotheses of inexpressibility, of compactness and of vividness formulated by Gibbs (1994); and the discussion about the social role of animal metaphors as put forward by Rodriguez (2009). The paper is organized in three sections. In the first one, we discuss the role of verbal metaphors in human communication according to Gibbs (1994); in the second, the animal metaphor human is animal; in the third, the relevance of animal metaphors in the comprehension and construal of genre and social identities (RODRIGUEZ, 2009). In connection with this concern, we analyze the animal metaphor ...
In literary works animal images are frequently used as the “source domain ” of a metaphor to disclos...
C1 - Journal Articles RefereedAnimal metaphors convey a wide range of meanings, from insulting slurs...
O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para a consolidação de uma perspectiva crítica antiespecista no...
The aim of this study is to provide further insights into the PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS metaphor, which was...
The aim of this study is to explore several animal-related expressions are both and understood in na...
For over thirty years cognitive linguists have devoted much effort to the study of metaphors based o...
Cognitive theory of metaphor has changed our understanding of metaphor as a figurative device to a m...
Abstract: For over thirty years cognitive linguists have devoted much effort to the study of metapho...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06Metaphor can reinforce widely accepted truths or...
En este texto buscamos documentar las relaciones entre dos animales compañeros (humanos y perros), g...
The article provides a brief contrastive look at animal metaphors (zoosemes) and their application i...
This work goal is to discuss the relationship between lexicon, culture and animal categorization, th...
This article aims to emphasize that metaphor is not an accidental occurrence in many press articles ...
The contact with the animal kingdom has become the source of many observations for a human being. T...
This thesis analyzes the role animals play as objects of human discourse—in particular, their use as...
In literary works animal images are frequently used as the “source domain ” of a metaphor to disclos...
C1 - Journal Articles RefereedAnimal metaphors convey a wide range of meanings, from insulting slurs...
O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para a consolidação de uma perspectiva crítica antiespecista no...
The aim of this study is to provide further insights into the PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS metaphor, which was...
The aim of this study is to explore several animal-related expressions are both and understood in na...
For over thirty years cognitive linguists have devoted much effort to the study of metaphors based o...
Cognitive theory of metaphor has changed our understanding of metaphor as a figurative device to a m...
Abstract: For over thirty years cognitive linguists have devoted much effort to the study of metapho...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06Metaphor can reinforce widely accepted truths or...
En este texto buscamos documentar las relaciones entre dos animales compañeros (humanos y perros), g...
The article provides a brief contrastive look at animal metaphors (zoosemes) and their application i...
This work goal is to discuss the relationship between lexicon, culture and animal categorization, th...
This article aims to emphasize that metaphor is not an accidental occurrence in many press articles ...
The contact with the animal kingdom has become the source of many observations for a human being. T...
This thesis analyzes the role animals play as objects of human discourse—in particular, their use as...
In literary works animal images are frequently used as the “source domain ” of a metaphor to disclos...
C1 - Journal Articles RefereedAnimal metaphors convey a wide range of meanings, from insulting slurs...
O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para a consolidação de uma perspectiva crítica antiespecista no...