Considerations on Western Communities: The Family

• Authors: Edgardo Galetti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The idea of family in the western culture has evolved throughout the centuries, from a strong-tied relationship between man-woman-children to the most varied combinations of person-to-person bonds. In many Western societies, the parents’ sexual orientation no longer defines the family structure. This paper studies identity and family relations by means of semiotics and conceptual metaphor theory.

Keywords

EN

intersubjective relations; blend; selfhood; static and dynamic spatial metaphors; social identity development

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-35

Dates

published

2013-01-01

online

2013-01-30

Contributors

author

Edgardo Galetti

• Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Madrid, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0012-3