DRUG CULTURE LEXICON IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILMS
Journal Title: Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie - Studia Neofilologiczne - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
The aim of this article is to examine some most frequently used expressions of drug users in modern English speaking countries in terms of metonymy, metaphor, metaphtonymy, and blending. The vocabulary selected for the analysis deals primarily with effects of drugs on human body and mind. The corpus of study has been drawn from the variety of English-language films. The analysis has been carried out in the framework of cognitive semantics. In particular, I present the cognitive sources of the drug-related vocabulary in terms of such general cognitive operations as metonymy (e.g. pukka, dope, pure), metaphor (e.g. jungle, the living dead, children of ecstasy), metaphtonymy (e.g. beat, hit, scag), and blending (e.g. cokehead, holy smokes).
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Roksana Kasperek
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- EP ID EP185667
- DOI 10.16926/sn.2016.12.06
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