@ARTICLE{Kuczok_Marcin_Metaphorical_2016,
 author={Kuczok, Marcin},
 volume={vol. 37},
 journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA},
 pages={125-142},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2016},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach},
 abstract={The present paper compares the statistical data concerning the use of conceptual metaphors for death and dying in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego (NKJP). Since death belongs to taboo topics, people often resort to euphemisms in order to cope with this diffi cult issue. Among linguistic devices used to create death euphemisms a special role is played by metaphor. Linguists interested in the language of death and dying provide lists of metaphors used by English and Polish speakers to conceptualize death, compiled on the basis of dictionaries, literature, press obituaries, headstone inscriptions, and even a TV series. In line with Kövecses’s observations (2005) that patterns of metaphorical conceptualization are not completely universal among cultures and languages, it is assumed that the metaphors for death and dying also differ between American Polish and English. The analysis of lexical correlates of death metaphors in the two language corpora allows us to identify the most common and the least common metaphors in both languages.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Metaphorical conceptualizations of "death" and "dying" in American English and Polish: a corpus-based contrastive study},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/108321/PDF-MASTER/Ling.%20Siles.%20vol%2037%207-M.Kuczok.pdf},
}