On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic Study of English Synonyms of 'Skinny'/'Fatty'

by Agnieszka Grzasko

Overview

The author studies the synonyms of 'skinny' and 'fatty' from the cognitive linguistic perspective. The quantum of the analysed lexical items is subdivided into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631666449
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/14/2016
Series:	Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures , #2
Edition description:	New
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Agnieszka Grząśko graduated from the University of Rzeszów (Polish and English Studies) and the Jagiellonian University, Poland. She received her PhD degree in linguistics from the University of Rzeszów. Her academic interests include diachronic linguistics, cognitive semantics and the language of flirtation.

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