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Publication details [#10913]
Urios-Aparisi, Eduardo. 2004. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach. In Márquez Reiter, Rosina and María Elena Placencia. Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 123). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 287–318. 32 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Abstract
The author focuses on the social and cognitive factors at work during meaning construction by analysing the metaphors used in a heavily loaded emotional face to face conversation between a Spanish young couple. The analysis reveals the various conversational strategies, the stereotypical behaviours and the attitudes adopted by the male and female partners in the framework of the theory of face-threatening acts and tries to identify the various factors playing a role in the expression of emotion by means of a comprehensive quantative analysis of the paradigmatic interaction
(Translation of anonymous French summary)