Metaphor across Languages

Please look at some examples of PERSON is ANIMAL metaphors for your language.
The data is here

• For each metaphor in English see if it can be used in your language, with an appropriate translation
  • If it can, write the translation and mark it with Y
    I have given some possible translations, for those languages I have lexicons for
  • If not, mark it with N
  • If there is another metaphor with the same animal, please add it in a new row, with a definition of its meaning.
  • If there are other animal metaphors you know about, feel free to add them at the end. For example, in Korean, 청개구리 cheong-gaeguri "green tree frog/disobedient person" (Explanation here)
    In this case add definitions for the literal meaning and the metaphorical meaning.
• We will then discuss the similarities and differences in class.

Readings and Resources

Slides: Idioms and Metaphors (slides from the class Detecting Meaning with Sherlock Holmes.

Please read Saeed (2016, in Moodle), Sections 11.4 Metaphor and 11.5 Metonoymy

• Andrew Goatly (2106) Humans, Animals, and Metaphors, Society & Animals 14:1, pp 15--37
• Hsieh, S. C. 2006. “A Corpus-based Study on Animal Expressions in Mandarin Chinese and German”. Journal of Pragmatics 38: 2206-2222.
• Anna Matveichuk (2022) Analysis of Zoomorphic Metaphors Characterising a Person in the Chinese and Russian Language BA Thesis, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• Usman, Jarjani & Yusuf, Yunisrina. (2020). The dehumanizing metaphors in the culture of Acehnese in Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 10. 397-405. 10.17509/ijal.v10i2.28611.