EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF DREAM AS DESIRE: METAPHORICAL HUNGER AND THIRST IN THE ENGLISH, ROMANIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES
EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF DREAM AS DESIRE: METAPHORICAL HUNGER AND THIRST IN THE ENGLISH, ROMANIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of the present article is to investigate the concept of “dream” as “desire” across three languages: English, Romanian and French. Having as a starting point the cognitive metaphor theory, we focus our attention mainly on the metaphors of hunger and thirst by examining how these linguistic expressions are employed to convey dreams as desires and by shedding light on the close connection between language, culture and human cognition. We begin our study from the very definition of the concept of “dream” as “desire” followed by the analysis of a selection of metaphorical expressions from our three languages in order to highlight the way these languages conceptualize “dreams” as “desires”.

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