Przeglądanie według Autor "Kowalczyk, Aleksandra"

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In search of the beginnings of a foodsemic boom in the history of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2024-12) Kowalczyk, Aleksandra
Food unquestionably plays a vital role in our lives, as it is essential for our day-to-day existence. It is multifacetedly mirrored in the way we picture the world and communicate with one another. Frequently, food names are deployed metaphorically/metonymically to conceptualize either human beings themselves and/or various aspects and features of their existence. Sometimes, such metaphors are analysed from a synchronic perspective, for example by Martsa (2001, 2013) and Kövecses (2002) and they are perceived as a means of communication. However, food metaphors may be analysed from a diachronic perspective and, as shown by Kleparski (2008, 2012), Kudła (2009, 2016), and Kowalczyk (2015, 2017) among others, in the history of English, food metaphors are traceable in various historically distant periods, and abound especially in most recent periods of the history of English when there are high levels of foodsemic figurative extensions. As shown by Kowalczyk (2024), between the years 1800-1950, there were over 130 cases of food-related metaphor. These numbers stand in sharp contrast to the humble beginnings of food metaphor in Old English and the Early Modern English period. The aim of this paper is to specify the period of intensification and heightened productivity of this phenomenon. The 16th century will be highlighted as the time of a true foodsemic boom that sparked off the process of blooming of this metaphorical mechanism. In the late Middle English period, which spans the 14th and 15th century, only a handful of food-related metaphors are registered and supported by historical lexicographic sources. By contrast, during the course of the 16th century, there were around two dozen food-related cases of metaphorization.
The semantic history of dough, bread, bun: on how money and women go together
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2016) Kowalczyk, Aleksandra
In recent literature scholars have worked out a number of new categories of meaning development, such as zoosemy, plantosemy and fooodsemy. In my paper I shall focus on the mechanism of foodsemy, a new semantic category proposed by Kleparski (2008). Most frequently, the process discussed here involves projection of attributive features and values, sometimes positive, yet most frequently negative, associated with members of the macrocategory FOODSTUFFS onto the macrocategory HUMAN BEING. Interestingly enough, numerous food and food-related lexical items are employed to conceptualize and encode the senses related to the macrocategory FEMALE HUMAN BEING. Additionally, one may also distinguish cases of shift in which metaphorical transfers link the conceptual macrocategory FOODSTUFFS and other conceptual categories, such as FEMALE BODY PARTS and MONEY. To illustrate complexity of foodsemy, I shall analyse the three cases of lexical items, such as dough, bread and bun that have undergone different metaphorisation processes.