Review: Cosmin Căprioară, 2023, Denumiri metaforice ale părților corpului omenesc în româna populară, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 284 p.

Abstract

This paper is intended as a review of the study in which Cosmin Căprioară analyses the process of metaphorization undergone by many of the terms designating human body parts in the Romanian folk language. The research is based on the cognitive theory of metaphor. In this case, the author has encoded an interdisciplinary analysis grid, using various methodologies and tools from dialectology, language history, lexicology and semantics, psycholinguistics etc. These were necessary in the operation of inventorying and delimiting the types of metaphors, resulting from semantic transfer, namely: [concrete] for [concrete] metaphors and [abstract] for [abstract] metaphors.

Keywords

• anatomical terms
• conceptual metaphor
• romanian folk language
• diatopic variation