MAN IS A RATIONAL ANIMAL? ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF STUPIDITY IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS CONTAINING NAMES OF ANIMALS IN POLISH AND SPANISH (Spanish title - below)

• Authors: Gwiazdowska Agnieszka
• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

(title in Spanish - 'El hombre es un animal irracional? sobre el concepto de estupidez en los zoomorfismos fraseológicos del polaco y del espanol'). The aim of this article is to analyze the selected phraseological units containing names of animals and having a metaphorical basis which is similar both in Polish and Spanish language. The purpose of the authoress' contrastive investigations, carried out in the area of cognitive linguistics, is to present the similarities and differences between the phraseological units including names of animals in these two languages, from both syntactical and semantical point of view. The subject matters of the following paper are selected zoosemic terms which metaphorically signify foolishness of human being.

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; METAPHORS; NAMES OF ANIMALS; TYPES OF EQUIVALENCE; VISION OF A MAN

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Łodzi
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 163-169
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gwiazdowska Agnieszka

• Agnieszka Gwiazdowska, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Wydzial Filologiczny, Instytut Jezyków Romanskich i Translatorski, Zaklad Hispanistyki, ul. Grota-Roweckiego 5, 41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08539