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Thematic role mappings in metaphor variation: contrasting English bake and Spanish hornear

  • Montserrat Esbrí-Blasco EMAIL logo und Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 1. Februar 2023

Abstract

The present study investigates the scope of metaphors evoked by the culinary term bake in American English and its Peninsular Spanish equivalent hornear. The data analysed was extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. The target frames evoked and the frame elements involved in the metaphorical mappings were used to identify and analyse the metaphorical expressions. Furthermore, the type of process and thematic roles performed by the frame elements in the conceptual projections were examined to make divergences explicit. Our results suggest that metaphor diversity is broader in American English, as the source frame evoked by bake expresses metaphorically a larger number of target frames than hornear in Peninsular Spanish. Consequently, these lexical items are not exact equivalents. Each language seems to place the experiential focus on different frame elements and thematic roles to create their metaphorical mappings, which points to differential cognitive preferences between both cultures.


Corresponding author: Montserrat Esbrí-Blasco, Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, E-mail:

Funding source: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, State Research Agency 10.13039/501100011033

Award Identifier / Grant number: PID2020-118349GB-I00

Acknowlegments

The authors are very grateful to two anonymous referees for their sagacious comments and useful suggestions. Funding for the research on which this article is based has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (State Research Agency) project no. PID2020-118349GB-I00.

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Received: 2022-05-30
Accepted: 2022-11-15
Published Online: 2023-02-01
Published in Print: 2023-03-28

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