On the semantic history of selected terms of endearment

dc.contributor.authorGrząśko, Agnieszka
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T08:25:40Z
dc.date.available2024-05-22T08:25:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe present paper attempts to discuss the semantic history of a handful of terms of endearment (aka pet names, sweet talk, affectionate talk, soft words, terms of affection or sweet words) and the role of the cognitive mechanisms in the changes of their meaning. We focus the reader’s attention on a few lexical items which represent such mechanisms as foodsemy (e.g. honey, sugar), which seems to be one of the most prolific ones, plantosemy (pumpkin) or zoosemy (pet). Furthermore, we trace the semantic development of terms which from the beginning of their existence have been employed as pet names (sweetheart), words which are no longer endearments, because they underwent the process of meaning amelioration or pejoration (mopsy, bully) and – last but not least – nouns whose semantic shift is based on the pattern (POSITIVE) EMOTIONS → ENDEARMENTS (joy).
dc.identifier.citation"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2015, Vol. 1, pp. 104-118
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/lingbaw.5626
dc.identifier.issn2450-5188
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7157
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectendearment
dc.subjectamelioration
dc.subjectpejoration
dc.subjectzoosemy
dc.subjectfoodsemy
dc.subjectplantosemy
dc.titleOn the semantic history of selected terms of endearment
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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