The Conceptual Field of ‘Clarity’ in Spoken Discourse from a Cognitive Focus on Bilingual (German-Spanish) Phraseology

  • Ana Mansilla Pérez Universidad de Murcia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFAL.2014.v22.45318
Keywords: Contrastive Phraseology, Clarity, Spanish, German.

Abstract

This paper explores the connection between the conceptual field of ‘clarity’ in spoken discourse and the three image schemata: CENTRE-PERIPHERY, CONTAINER and PATH. The perspective employed is cognitive semantics, with a focus on the analysis of three metaphors: CLARITY IS CENTRAL, CLARITY IS MOVEMENT FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE and CLARITY IS A STRAIGHT AND EVEN PATH. With the aid of the bilingual onomasiological corpus FRASESPAL, the contrastive analysis of over 120 phraseological units reveals parallelisms and correspondences in both phraseologies, confirming that the language and phraseological systems of German and Spanish offer similar conceptualizations of the extralinguistic world by means of metaphors that largely coincide.

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Published
2014-05-21
How to Cite
Mansilla Pérez A. (2014). The Conceptual Field of ‘Clarity’ in Spoken Discourse from a Cognitive Focus on Bilingual (German-Spanish) Phraseology. Revista de Filología Alemana, 22, 227-238. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFAL.2014.v22.45318
Issue
Vol. 22 (2014)
Section
Artículos. Estudios lingüísticos

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