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Pannain, Rossella

doi:10.1075/hcp.60.int

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“…The conception of metaphor and metonymy as essentially cognitive phenomena which provide insight into the way in which language users conceptualize and categorize their environment is derived from the influential frameworks of conceptual metaphor theory (Kövecses, 2017;Lakoff, 1987Lakoff, , 1993Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and conceptual metonymy theory (Barcelona & Blanco-Carrión, 2018;Gibbs, 1994;Panther & Radden, 1999;Panther & Thornburg, 2007) (CMT). At the basis of these frameworks lies the claim that contrary to traditional theory, metaphor and metonymy are all-pervasive, central phenomena not just of everyday language, but primarily of everyday thought.…”

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Women, blood, and dangerous things: socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation

Vancauwenbergh,

Franco

2023

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This study examines a collection of expressions for the taboo topic of menstruation in Dutch, German, and Mandarin Chinese. A model for the identification of conceptualization patterns in taboo verbalizations is set up, analyzing each expression according to the X-phemistic mechanisms and, if applicable, the metaphorical source domains or metonymic vehicles at its origin. The various conceptualizations of menstruation are approached from a socio-cultural perspective; variation in conceptualization is examined through a correspondence regression analysis with three speaker-related explanatory variables (L1 and associated cultural background, menstrual experience, and age group). The underlying interest is linguo-cultural as the study aims to verify whether dominant menstrual attitudes are reflected in the linguistic conceptualization of menstruation within each socio-cultural group. Such correlations are indeed found, although the youngest age-group shows some unexpected linguistic behavior.

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