Lying as metaphor in a bilingual phraseological corpus (German-Spanish)
Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Ana Mansilla
Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
Description
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.