Erotization as the basis of female metaphor in the english language
The article presents a logical-semantic analysis of metaphors, encoding women in English from the erotic standpoint. In the erotic metaphor a female image is revealed in a binary division: the woman as a passive object that is to meet the needs of men, and as an active agent, when she lures men, manipulates them, cheats, uses them to her own advantage, that is, her sexual behavior is in opposition to the ideas of stereotypical hierarchical patriarchal structure and phallocentricity of the universe. Important areas of erotic feminine metaphors refer to coding the semantics of women of easy virtue and lesbians. The analysis has shown that representativeness and semantic density of these metaphors are high enough and they are cognitively foregrounded in the English language and mind. The metaphoric projections of women move from bodily sensations (with the emergent scheme) to mental, epistemic or logical domains.
Keywords
society,
the English language,
culture,
gender,
erotic metaphor,
английский язык,
социум,
культура,
гендер,
эротическая метафораAuthors
| Murashova L.P. | Southern Institute of Management (Pyatigorsk) | L-P-Murashova@mail.ru |
| Pravikova L.V. | Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University | pravikova@mail.com |
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