Metaphorical creation in Romanian terms and expressions regarding the shirt

Language is a creative activity characterized by the ability to generate new meanings, sometimes starting from old words in the language. A basic element in the constitution of clothing images is the creative imagination of the speaker who structures the world through language, in direct relation to the realities and experience of the community. The term cămașă proves its capacity for renewal through derivation, composition and metaphorization. In this article, we propose to analyze how the image of the shirt becomes a starting point in the constitution of the conventional metaphor, understood in Coșeriu’s terms as a unitary, spontaneous and immediate expression of a collective poetic intuition, a consequence of the creative dimension of language.