TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnieszka Grząśko
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-7558
SN  - 9783653059847
TI  - On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic Study of English Synonyms of ‘Skinny’/‘Fatty’
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05984-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049647
N2  - The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic change. The author subdivided the quantum of the analysed lexical items into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia. Surveying a collection of English dictionaries the author makes an attempt to determine the status of a given synonym in present-day English.
LA  - English
ER  -