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The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic change. The author subdivided the quantum of the analysed lexical items into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia. Surveying a collection of English dictionaries the author makes an attempt to determine the status of a given synonym in present-day English.



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Insults in human’s life – Cognitive approach – ‘Fatty’/‘Skinny’ synonyms in the history of English – Stereotypes – Animals and humans – Food and humans – Plants and humans – Meaning shifts – Cultural and linguistic nature of the ‘skinny’/‘fatty’ opposition

On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 14/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9783631666449, 978-3631666449
      ISBN10: 3631666446

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic change. The author subdivided the quantum of the analysed lexical items into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia. Surveying a collection of English dictionaries the author makes an attempt to determine the status of a given synonym in present-day English.



      Table of Contents

      Insults in human’s life – Cognitive approach – ‘Fatty’/‘Skinny’ synonyms in the history of English – Stereotypes – Animals and humans – Food and humans – Plants and humans – Meaning shifts – Cultural and linguistic nature of the ‘skinny’/‘fatty’ opposition

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