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The structural and semantic aspects of conventional as- and like-similes
Vrbinc, Marjeta ; Vrbinc, Alenka
This contribution deals with British English conventional similes containing comparison markers as and like. The introductory part addresses issues concerning the difference/similarity between ...similes and metaphors, component elements of metaphors and similes, lexical variation and factors that contribute to the memorability of similes. For the purpose of the study, a database consisting of 133 as-similes and 125 like-similes was collected drawing on examples found in British monolingual dictionaries. On the basis of this database, structural types of as- and like-similes were determined. A comparison of the structure of as-similes and like-similes shows one basic similarity, i.e., that the vehicle position is mostly, though not exclusively, occupied by a nominal phrase. Otherwise, no other structural parallel can be drawn between both groups of similes. Then follows the analysis of the semantic fields of nominal phrases in the vehicle part of as- and like-similes, the emphasis being on whether they overlap or diverge, and the analysis of the semantic fields of adjectives in the ground part of as-similes. Last but not least, similes whose ground is represented by the same adjective or adverb and whose vehicle is characterized by different nominal phrases (or rarely pronouns and clauses) are taken into consideration.
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