Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness

Published:2023-12-01 Issue:1 Volume:20 Page:1-10
ISSN:2286-0428
Container-title:Romanian Journal of English Studies
language:en
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Author:

Csillag Andrea¹

Affiliation:

1. 1 Debrecen Reformed Theological University

Abstract

Abstract The paper studies the language of sadness in English on a corpus of conventional expressions and aims at investigating the choice of prepositions combined with a number of sadness terms (e.g. sad about his failure, unhappy at his misfortunate, depressed by the news, sorry for being late). The paper finds that the prepositional phrases name the causes triggering sadness and there are correlations between the prepositions about, at, by, for and over and the types of causes combined together, which can be explained the metaphorical meanings of the prepositions.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/rjes-2023-0001

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