Co kryje się w umyśle seryjnego mordercy? Rozważania w kontekście powieści Borisa Akunina Dekorator

• Authors: Olga Letka-Spychała

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this paper is to answer the question which appears in its title. In order to do so, I analyse the mind style of the eponymous character from Boris Akunin’s book The Decorator (1999). The notion of mind style coined by Roger Fowler relates to a unique correlation between certain linguistic constructions (metaphors, transitive patterns, underlexicalization) and their role in projecting particular world-views. The analysis shows that in the case of Akunin’s hero, who is inspired by the legendary Jack the Ripper, it is metaphors that serve the function of “consistent structural options”. They demonstrate how the murderer conceptualizes and interprets such concepts as MURDER, MURDERER, BODY and BEAUTY.

Keywords

EN

mind style; conceptual metaphor; the decorator; boris akunin; jack the ripper

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uczelniane Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy
• Journal: Heteroglossia - studia kulturoznawczo-filologiczne
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 9-26

Contributors

author

Olga Letka-Spychała

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

• https://orcid.org/0000000286714404

Identifiers

DOI

10.34864/heteroglossia.issn.2084-1302.nr10.art1

Biblioteka Nauki

953245