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https://doi.org/10.31820/f.37.2.6
Language under Strain: Somatic Expressions with “Tooth/Teeth” in Slovak News Media (A Corpus-Based Study of Expressive Phrasemes in Political and War Contexts)
Anita Hutkova
orcid.org/0000-0002-9107-3613
; Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Jana Pecnikova
orcid.org/0000-0002-6596-5685
; Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Sažetak
This study investigates expressive phrasemes containing the word tooth/teeth as they appear in the Slovak daily journal SME. The primary aim is to highlight their linguistic forms and expressive functions within journalistic discourse, focusing on established phraseological patterns, stylistic devices (e.g., proverbs, sayings), as well as metaphorical and metonymic imagery. We examine the semantic structure of tooth in somatic phrasemes through conceptual profiling, drawing on the ethnolinguistic frameworks of Wierzbicka (1985, 1996), Bartmiński (2010), and Vaňková & Vitkovskaya (2014). Our objective is to uncover the cognitive structure and to assess its expressive potential within the specific thematic context of the war in Ukraine. The study employs methods of corpus linguistics and pragmatic stylistics, using textual data from a dedicated corpus of SME articles published between January 2022 and May 2023. This corpus was compiled by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava at the request of the authors.
Ključne riječi
linguistics; expressive function; stylistics; ethnolinguistic approach; tooth
Hrčak ID:
342891
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2025.
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