Lying as metaphor in a bilingual phraseological corpus (German-Spanish)

  1. Ana Mansilla 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Book:
Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives
  1. Maite Taboada (coord.)
  2. Susana Doval Suárez (coord.)
  3. Elsa González Álvarez (coord.)

Publisher: Equinox

ISBN: 9781908049759

Year of publication: 2013

Pages: 327-344

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is the exploration of the conceptual metaphors that are activated in a set of German and Spanish phraseologisms covering concepts to do with lying, deceit and falsehood. The exploration is based on a bilingual onomasiological corpus that is part of the research project FRASESPAL.