Translating English WOMAN IS AN ANIMAL metaphors: Spanish native speakers’ associations with novel metaphors
Animal metaphors are prevalent across languages and convey a variety of, oftentimes negative, meanings – more so for women than men. In English, for example, both lion and lioness refer to a sexually active, dominant man or woman respectively, but while the former is endowed with positive connotatio...
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Bern Open Publishing
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Linguistik Online |
| Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/7797 |