Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian

2009 ◽  
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Source Domain ◽  
Contrastive Study

scholarly journals Die Kuh vom Eis bringen. Landwirtschaft als metaphorischer Herkunftsbereich für Phraseolexeme des Deutschen und Albanischen.

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Sonila Sadikaj
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Direct Contact ◽  
Source Domain ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
European Languages

The aim of this contrastive study is to examine the source domain “agriculture” as an image donor for a large number of phraseological units in German and Albanian and to address the question which agricultural terms belong to the phraseological inventory in both languages and which metaphorical target domains are linguistically structured by them. This language combination consists of two Indo-European languages whose peoples have not been in direct contact with each other in the course of history. Identifying differences and similarities in this regard would be of great interest – especially the latter, because phraseological universals could be discovered in the similarities between these not very closely related languages and peoples.

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