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Tesi etd-09102015-101951


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
MANCARELLA, CRISTINA
URN
etd-09102015-101951
Titolo
IDIOMATIC AND METAPHORICAL STRUCTURES FOR BODY PARTS IN ENGLISH AND IN ITALIAN
Dipartimento
FILOLOGIA, LETTERATURA E LINGUISTICA
Corso di studi
LINGUISTICA
Relatori
relatore Prof.ssa Bertuccelli Papi, Marcella
Parole chiave
  • Metaphor
  • Embodiment
  • Cognitive Linguistics
Data inizio appello
28/09/2015
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
This study constitutes a description of the analogies and differences in the figurative use of body part terms in English and in Italian. More specifically, it will be focused on the terms Head/Testa, Eye/Occhio, Nose/Naso, Mouth/Bocca and Ear/Orecchio. At first, idiomatic expressions will be analysed in context of rhetoric and then in Cognitive Linguistics. The notion of Embodiment will be a central issue in this work. The final part consists of a comparison between idiomatic expressions related to body part terms in italian and english, with the help of english and italian dictionaries.
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