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BEYOND AND ACROSS SCIENCES, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES


MORĂRAƞU NADIA NICOLETA, ANDRIOAI GABRIELA
"Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, 8 Spiru Haret, Bacau, Romania, e-mail: n.morarasu@yahoo.com e-mail: gabriela_andrioai@yahoo.com

Issue:

SCSB, Number 1, Volume XX

Section:

Volume 20, No. 1 - Vegetal Biology

Abstract:

Cognitive linguistic researches including the one conducted in this study have proven that plants are considered to be a fruitful domain for the conceptualization of both abstract concepts (including emotions and ideas) and concrete animate entities (especially human). Varied plants and their parts as well as the stages of plant growth are constantly mapped onto the evolutionary stages of different processes (e.g. emotion development) or onto the human life cycle, by means of conventional metaphors and conventionalized similes.

Keywords:

plant domain, target domain, conventional plant metaphor, conventionalized plant simile.

Code [ID]:

SCSB20112001V20S01A0026 [0003703]

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