RT Journal Article
T1 Metaphor and Metonymy in Food Idioms
A1 Negro Alousque, Isabel
AB In recent decades, the development of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, put forward by Lakoff and other scholars. In this light, metaphor and metonymy have been found to provide a semantic motivation for a considerable number of idiomatic expressions. Within this framework, the present contribution explores the cognitive motivation of food idioms in English (e.g., ‘be a cup of tea,’ ‘bread and butter,’ ‘walking on eggshells’) and Spanish (e.g., darse pisto, tener mala uva, cortar el bacalao). The analysis reveals that idiomatic meaning often relies on metaphoric amalgams and metonymic chains, or on the interaction between metaphor and metonymy.
PB MDPI
SN 2226-471X
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12398
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12398
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025