Metafora immanentna cecha języka poetyckiego czy uniwersalna etykieta językowa?

• Authors: Urszula Sokólska

Title variants

EN

A METAPHOR. AN IMMANENT FEATURE OF THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY OR A UNIVERSAL LINGUISTIC LABEL?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt at answering the question about the function of metaphors and their formal-semantic shape mainly in poetic and scien- tific texts. The comparative analysis being carried out proves that metaphorical conjunctions occur in both variants of utterances but their stylistic function, frequency and a degree of conventionalization are of a different character. Innovative and strongly individualized metaphors are characteristic of poetry whereas for the language of science – mainly metaphors considerably standardized based on system models and structures whose genetic innovativeness we are no longer aware of; rarely innovative metaphors. Therefore it seems unauthorized to treat metaphors as universal linguistic labels typical of each kind of utterance unless we understand such universality in a slightly narrower sense, i.e., as “useful, usable, suitable, helpful”.

Keywords

EN

INNOVATIVENESS; A LINGUISTIC LABEL; A METAPHOR; CONVENTIONALIZATION; A POETIC TEXT; A SCIENTIfiC TEXT

• Journal: Białostockie Archiwum Językowe
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 239-256

Contributors

author

Urszula Sokólska

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, POLAND