Abstract
In this Master Thesis I analize the metaphorical use of several terms from the TEMPERATURE domain in a reference corpus of written Italian from a cognitive framework. After indentifying the conceptual metaphors involved, I classify the evaluated entities in order to study their relationship to the different terms and the target domains. Thus, the research contributes to a richer description of such terms by including the experiences they describe, either in reference to their physical temperature or to other domains metaphorically conceptualized in terms of heat or cold.
Type
Mariana Montes
Doctor in Linguistics
My research interests include cognitive and corpus semantics and visual analytics.