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Chick Lit, Chick Magnet, Biker Chick, Hippie Chick : metaphorical uses of Chick in contemporary american english

Authors: Mottin, Lívia Pretto; Sarmento, Simone;

Chick Lit, Chick Magnet, Biker Chick, Hippie Chick : metaphorical uses of Chick in contemporary american english

Abstract

Metáforas não são apenas uma ferramenta poética ou retórica, mas fazem parte do nosso sistema conceptual (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) e nos permitem entender determinado aspecto de um conceito em termos de outro. Este artigo tem o objetivo de desvendar como o lexema chick pode ser usado para referir ao universo feminino. Primeiramente, apresento uma revisão bibliográfica sobre metáforas e, então, verifico como o domínio de animais pode ser usado para melhor explicar o comportamento humano. Em seguida, apresento dados coletados no Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) para identificar e interpretar algumas metáforas de chick através de uma análise baseada em corpus. Em cada subcorpus do COCA, as primeiras 100 linhas de concordâncias aleatórias foram analisadas em contexto a fim de verificar as ocorrências dos usos metafóricos e dos usos literais da palavra de busca. As ocorrências não literais foram examinadas com maior cuidado com o objetivo de verificar o uso metafórico por elas representado, determinar a posição que o lexema pode ocupar em uma frase e verificar que palavras são fortes colocadas de chick. Os resultados mostram que chick é uma metáfora produtiva, usada tanto como substantivo quanto como adjetivo. Além disso, as ocorrências de chick em seu sentido metafórico excedem suas ocorrências em sentido literal.

Metaphors are not just a poetic or rhetorical tool, they are part of our conceptual system (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980). They allow us to understand one aspect of a concept in terms of another. This paper aims at unraveling how the lexeme chick can be used to refer to the female universe. I first review some literature on metaphors, then, check how the domain of animals can be used to better explain human behavior. Next, I present some data collected in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for identifying and interpreting some metaphors of the lexeme chick through a corpus-based analysis. In each subcorpus of COCA, the first 100 random concordance lines were analysed in context in order to check whether the search word was used in its metaphorical or in its literal meaning. The non-literal occurrences were better examined, in order to find out the metaphorical use they represent, to determine the positions the lexeme may occupy in a sentence, and to verify its strongest collocations. The results show that chick is a productive metaphor used either as a noun or as an adjective. Besides, the occurrences of chick in its metaphorical sense outnumber the occurrences in its literal sense.

Keywords

Corpus linguistics, Metáfora, Lingüística de corpus, Metaphors, Women, Chick, Língua inglesa, Conceptual metaphors

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