Adopting a data based approach, the study explores Russian intensifying metaphors of COMPLETENESS. A wide range of instantiations of the metaphor of COMPLETENESS is analyzed within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), comprising achievement of a result (soveršennyj idiot), filled container (nabityj durak) and round form (kruglyj otličnik). The contrastive perspective (Russian-English-Italian) provides new insights on the mapping of the source domain of COMPLETENESS onto the target domain of INTENSITY in different languages and cultures.
Roma Tre University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2813-3345
Chapter Title
Le metafore di intensificazione in russo: la realizzazione linguistica del concetto di COMPLETEZZA
Authors
Valentina Benigni
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8.10
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2018
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© 2018 Author(s)
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Book Title
Contributi italiani al XVI Congresso Internazionale degli Slavisti
Book Subtitle
(Belgrado 20-27 agosto 2018)
Editors
Maria Chiara Ferro, Laura Salmon, Giorgio Ziffer
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
356
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-720-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-723-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-108-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679