イノウエ カズコ   Kazuko INOUE
  井上 加寿子
   所属   教育学部 英語コミュニケーション学科
   職種   講師
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2020/03
形態種別 学術論文
標題 Metaphorical Uses of Feline Onomatopoeic Verbs
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 The Bulletin of Kansai University of International Studies
掲載区分国内
出版社・発行元 Kansai University of International Studies
巻・号・頁 (21),pp.11-20
総ページ数 10
著者・共著者 Kazuko Inoue
概要 Over the past few decades, a number of studies have been conducted on animal metaphors. In this study, we are concerned with verbs that typically refer to actions of animals but are instead used to describe those of humans, especially sound-emission verbs that refer to cries or onomatopoeia related to cats. This paper takes a text-based approach in order to examine examples in which feline sound-emission or onomatopoeic verbs are metaphorically used in authentic discourse in English. It also considers how these verbs are semantically extended from onomatopoeic meanings to other meanings that refer to human actions from a cognitive linguistic perspective. In conclusion, there are two types of animal metaphors involved in feline onomatopoeic verbs: metaphor based on similarity and metaphor from metonymy based on contiguity and similarity between the source domain CAT and the target domain HUMAN.