Metafory odzwierzęce w funkcji predykatu w języku polskim, rosyjskimi angielskim
Zoomorphical metaphors denoting human beings in Polish, Russian and English

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses sentences containing zoomorphical metaphors denoting human beings in predicate function in Polish, Russian and English. The sentences are of a type Jesteś świnia (-ą), Ты свинья, You are a pig. The metaphor-predicate ascribes the subject (hidden or expressed by a noun or a pronoun) with some non-typical feature. It occurs to be a very important way of transmitting subjective evaluation of a human being it denotes.

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