Functional effects, prepositional semantics, and metaphorical containment in Brazilian Portuguese: the case of em, dentro de, and fora de
<p>I analyzed conventional metaphorical expressions in Brazilian Portuguese having lexicalized functional effects of spatial scenes as complements of the prepositions dentro de [inside], em [in, on, at], and fora de [out of]. The functional effects investigated were ‘protection’, ‘covering/hid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Scripta |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/13966 |
| Summary: | <p>I analyzed conventional metaphorical expressions in Brazilian Portuguese having lexicalized functional effects of spatial scenes as complements of the prepositions dentro de [inside], em [in, on, at], and fora de [out of]. The functional effects investigated were ‘protection’, ‘covering/hiding’, ‘control’, and ‘envelopment’, which constitute the family resemblance concept of Containment. I provided a cognitive account of these conventional expressions in terms of primary metaphors such as invisible is inside and<br />uncontrolled is outside, emerging through experiential correlation in primary scenes. I described twelve meanings based on the container image schema, four based on the verticality schema, and four based on the nonimagetic notion of ‘non-existence’. Contradicting my initial expectations, the corpus-based analysis revealed little overlapping between em and sob [under], and fora de and sem [without]. However, the study confirmed the asymmetry between the prepositions meaning ‘in’ and those meaning ‘out’.</p><p>Keywords: Metaphor. Experiential correlation. Containment functional relation. Prepositional meaning. Brazilian Portuguese.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1516-4039 2358-3428 |