At the crossroads between literature, culture, linguistics, and cognition: "Life is a journey" and "The divided-self" metaphors in Fairy Tales
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1088
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.316
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.316
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Herrero Ruiz, JavierDate
2010Abstract
This paper resumes the series related to metaphors in fairy tales started by HERRERO in 2005 (cf. HERRERO, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). In this case, the study is based on how the conceptual metaphors LIFE IS A JOURNEY and THE DIVIDED-SELF may explain the structure and the basic meaning of more than twenty popular tales, which in turn accounts for some of the uncanny of tales. The tales, which are representative of various cultures, were compiled by the British author Andrew Lang (1844-1912), and have been downloaded from the Project Gutenberg online library. Our research also casts some light on the fact that tales are akin in varying socio-cultural contexts: their solid experiential grounding may not only have contributed to a uniform plot, but also to an easier transmission of the stories in diverse, remote settings. Este artículo continúa la serie relacionada con las metáforas en los cuentos tradicionales comenzada por HERRERO en 2005 (véase HERRERO, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). En este c...
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Conceptual metaphor
Fairy tales
Life is a journey
The dividedself
Experiential
Uncanny
Culture
Metáfora conceptual
Cuentos tradicionales
Experiencia
“Lo maravilloso”
Cultura