Agujas, alfileres y gladiolos. Metáforas vegetales cosificadoras

  1. José Luis Herrero Ingelmo 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Cuadernos del Instituto de Historia de la Lengua

ISSN: 1889-0709

Year of publication: 2023

Issue: 16

Pages: 63-94

Type: Article

DOI: 10.58576/CILENGUA.VI16.248 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This study sheds light on the Spanish plant-based metaphors linked to pointed objects, viz. needles, pins and gladioli. Flora iberica database [http://www.floraiberica.es], a project developed in 1980 by the Royal Botanical Garden -the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid known under the denomination of CSIC-, is employed to study «the vascular plants that sporadically grow in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands»; thus the American flora -even when rich and interesting-is excluded. Particularremarks on how these metaphors are consigned in the academic dictionary are made when incorporated into the «general» name of a plant.

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