The Comparison of A HUMAN BEING IS A PLANT Metaphor between the English and Polish Language

Sylwia Izabela Filipczuk-Rosińska

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The following paper focuses on the conceptual structural metaphor A HUMAN BEING IS A PLANT (Krzeszowki1997), which is related to the Great Chain of Being metaphor (Kövecses 2002). The assumption being that the sourcedomain of PLANTS is well-grounded in people’s everyday experience, it is well-represented in cognitive storagestructures such as categories, frames or Idealized Cognitive Models. Therefore, it was assumed that establishing theset of correspondences across the domains in order to re-create the mapping process should conceptually not poseconsiderable difficulty. The primary objective of the undertaken research was to compare a sample of formulatedelaborations of the metaphor between the English and Polish language on the basis of data in the form of sentencescollected from respective online language corpora. This comparison was feasible due to the level of backgroundknowledge possessed by the authoress as a native speaker of Polish and second language learner of English.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/wjss.v3n1p15

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