Publications

Publication details [#32040]

Fernández Fontecha, Almudena and Rosa María Jiménez Catalán. 2003. Semantic derogation in animal metaphor: a contrastive-cognitive analysis of two male/female examples in English and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (5) : 771–797.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor | semantic case

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article presents a contrastive-cognitive study of semantic derogation in animal metaphor in English and Spanish, using the two paired examples zorro/zorra and toro/vaca.