Verba dicendi şi mecanismul metaforei în limbile română şi spaniolă
Verba dicendi and the mechanism of metaphor construction in Romanian and Spanish

Summary/Abstract: This paper, part of a more elaborated study, attempts to highlight that category of verbs – usually considered to be non-dicendi verbs – that aquired the special status of speech verbs due to their metaphorical use in certain contexts. This is how verbs coming from a wide variety of fields, such as animal communication sphere, physiological processes, natural phenomena, musical performances or certain onomatopoeic verbs may occasionally be considered as dicendi and, by their secondary meaning of human specific language (sometimes even gibberish or unintelligible), come to be perceived as reconfiguring the picture of the speech verbs in the lexicon of a language.

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