A Corpus-based Study of Food-related Metaphors in English and Thai
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Aug 30, 2019
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corpus-based study food-related metaphors conceptual metaphors IDEAS ARE FOOD
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This study aims to investigate occurrences of three food-related metaphorical expressions with the words, i.e. swallow, digest and spoon-feed, based on the conceptual metaphor IDEAS ARE FOOD according to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), and to examine cross-cultural food-related metaphors between English and Thai through Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Thai National Corpus (TNC). The results show that when the words, i.e. swallow, digest and spoon-feed, collocated with IDEAS terms, they created metaphorical senses and mostly conveyed negative connotations in the English corpus. On the other hand, food-related metaphorical expressions with the equivalent counterparts of English, i.e. กลืน /klɯːn/ “swallow”, ย่อย /jɔ̂ːj/ “digest” and ป้อน /pɔ̂ːn/ “feed”, in the Thai corpus did not convey the same metaphorical meaning as in English due to the cultural differences.
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Boontam, P. (2019). A Corpus-based Study of Food-related Metaphors in English and Thai. Humanities and Social Sciences Nakhonsawan Rajabhat University Academic Journal, 6(1), 1–43. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hssnsru/article/view/213048
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O'Keeffe, A., McCarthy, M., & Carter, R. (2007). From corpus to classroom: Language use and language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pragglejaz Group. (2007). MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse. Metaphor and symbol, 22(1), 1-39.
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Spoon-feed. (2019). In Cambridge dictionary. Retrieved from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spoon-feed
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