Beauty And The BeastFrom A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective: Animal Metaphors For Women In Serbian And Romanian

• Authors: ANNAMARIA KILYENI , NADEŽDA SILAŠKI
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Under the theoretical wing of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we present a contrastive cognitive and linguistic analysis of the women are animals metaphor as used in Romanian and Serbian. Our main aim is to establish whether the names of the same animals are used in the two languages to conceptualise women and their various characteristics (particularly physical appearance and character traits), or alternatively, whether the two languages exhibit any linguistic or conceptual differences in this regard.

Keywords

EN

animal metaphor; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Romanian; Serbian; women

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 163-178

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-03-25

Contributors

author

ANNAMARIA KILYENI

• Politehnica University Timişoara, 2, Victoriei Sq, 300006 Timişoara, Romania

author

NADEŽDA SILAŠKI

• University of Belgrade, Serbia, 6, Kamenička St., Belgrade, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2015-0012