| Autor: |
COLOMBO, CHIARA, PONTANI, PAOLA, IODICE, MARIO |
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Lingue e Linguaggi; 2024 Special Issue, Vol. 61, p77-99, 23p |
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This paper explores the idiomatic expressions involving an insect as a source and a human being or their activities as a target across three languages -- Latin, Italian, English. To scan their development through time we have opted for the use of three historic dictionaries as our reference, i.e. TLL, GDLI and OED. The analysis pursues several purposes: to determine and quantify the number of insects and idiomatic expressions synchronically and diachronically; to establish a comparison between the uses in the different languages; to discover common and culturally specific traits in how the three languages perceive the nature of insects, which have an impact on the sentiment regarding them; finally, to prove if there are anthropological, psychological and cognitive facets responsible for the sentiment entertained about insects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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