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Publication details [#10798]

Trovato, Paolo. 2002. Un campo metaforico del linguaggio filologico: "colorito," "patina," "strato" e simili. Saratov University Journal 37 (2) : 287–313. 27 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Italian

Abstract

In light of recent reevaluations of metaphors as representations of important images of the world, i.e., essential mental models, the metaphoric basis of a group of traditional philological and linguistic terms centering the concept of coloring is investigated by documenting their use in a corpus of 72 texts, dating from 1681 to the present; 20th-century texts and Italian writers predominate in the corpus. Extracts are presented to illustrate the use of the terms 'color, coloring', and 'patina' to describe characteristics of the language of particular writers and varieties of colloquial speech; extremely frequent in the corpus is the notion of dialectal coloring. (J. Hitchcock in LLBA 2003, vol. 37, n. 3)