The motivation of french colour idioms

Autores/as

  • Isabel Negro Alousque

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/epos.26.2010.10649

Palabras clave:

idiom, figurative meaning, motivation, metaphor, cultural symbol,

Resumen

The use of figurative language is not limited to poetry but rather pervades everyday speech. Figurative language has been a central research subject in the last years which has been approached from different perspectives: psychological, cognitive and linguistic. The present contribution paper focuses on a central set of figurative expressions, colour idioms, in the French language. The study concerns the different types of motivation (metaphoric or cultural) underlying French colour idioms.

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Publicado

2010-01-01

Cómo citar

Negro Alousque, I. (2010). The motivation of french colour idioms. Epos : Revista De filología, (26), 351. https://doi.org/10.5944/epos.26.2010.10649