TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Negro Alousque, Isabel
TI  - Cultural Domains in the French Language - A Case Study
T2  - Cahiers de lexicologie 2011 – 2, n° 99. Lexique et philosophie
JO  - Cahiers de lexicologie (ISSN 2262-0346), 99, 2011 – 2
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4146-2.p.0245
SN  - 2262-0346
SP  - 245
EP  - 254
AB  - The relationship between
language and culture has long been a major claim of linguistics. Such connection particularly
shows in the lexicon. Words do not only convey denotational meaning but also cultural
information. Culturally-marked lexis is associated with cultural domains, which are in turn
connected with cultural scripts that contain information about the event itself, the participants
and the place where it takes place. In the present article we illustrate cultural scripts from the
French domain of cooking. The analysis shows the lexical wealth of the domain, highlighted
by the figurative sense of many French food words that generates a remarkable number of
idioms with a positive or negative connotation. The study of the food idiomatic expressions
in the French language is undertaken from a semantic and a syntactic perspective.
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/12/12
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - cultural domain, cultural script, figurative meaning, metaphor, connotation
LA  - eng
UR  - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/cahiers-de-lexicologie-2011-2-n-99-lexique-et-philosophie-cultural-domains-in-the-french-language-en.html
Y2  - 2025/12/06
ER  -