CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS AS IMAGES IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH ANTONYMIC PHRASEOLOGIES: “SUCCESS” AND “UNSUCCESS”
CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS AS IMAGES IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH ANTONYMIC PHRASEOLOGIES: “SUCCESS” AND “UNSUCCESS”
Author(s): Oana BalanSubject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Phraseology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: phraseology; antonymy; conceptual metaphor; image representation; success; unsuccess;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the investigation of the way images are created with the help of the conceptual metaphor within the phraseological units in the English and Romanian linguistic pictures, regarding the antonymic relationship between the concepts of “success” and “unsuccess”. The aim of the article is to find both common and particular components of the English and Romanian antonymic phraseologies that lead to creating images through metaphors related to the concepts mentioned above. The methods used for this research are those of general linguistics, but also those specific to cognitive linguistics. English and Romanian are languages that have many differences from a structural and semantic point of view, and their phraseologies have not been investigated enough, let alone the relation of antonymy between the two concepts proposed.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 627-632
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English