The place of the anatomical metaphor in Romanian dialect variants

Abstract

This study aims at highlighting some of the most important findings and observations resulting from some extensive research on metaphorical anatomical terms in folk Romanian language, as reflected on the dialect maps in the ALRR. Sinteză and other Romanian linguistic atlases, including those dealing with South-Danube Romanian dialects. The methodological and theoretical considerations regarding the folk metaphor, which has become a form of catachresis through daily use, and the lexico-semantic field of human body parts, similar, in many respects, to a terminology, are complemented by observations on how the metaphorization process actually occurs within this lexical subset.

Keywords

• linguistic geography
• romanian dialect variants
• folk anatomical metaphor
• catachresis
• the lexico-semantic field of human body parts.