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Abstract
The paper discusses source domains of smell related metaphorical collocations. The research is limited to metaphorical collocations with pleasant smell denoting words scent, fragrance, aroma, and perfume in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The scope of the research is 2187 concordance lines (CL) containing metaphorical collocations with the words scent, fragrance, aroma, and perfume from 3580 CL containing any word phrase with the target words. The research is based on identification and description of the source domains of the collected metaphorical collocations with pleasant smell words, relating the source domains to underlying conceptual metaphors and determining the frequency distribution of the identified source domains. The following source domains were identified in the research: object, substance, physical force, and food. The analysis showed the frequency of source domains across all four groups forming smell related conceptual metaphors: object with 1833 instances of metaphorical collocations (84%), substance with 202 instances (9%), physical force with 130 instances (6%), and food with 22 instances (1%). The present study contributes to the development of cognitive semantics and its findings demonstrate which meanings are prevalent in human mentality when pleasant smell related metaphorical collocations are used.
Highlights
Metaphor is one of the centres of attention in cognitive linguistics
The source domains of metaphorical collocations formed with fragrance are object and substance
The source domains of metaphorical collocations formed with scent and perfume are object, substance, and physical force
Summary
Metaphor is one of the centres of attention in cognitive linguistics. As Grady (2010, p. 188) observes, “If Cognitive Linguistics is the study of ways in which features of language reflect other aspects of human cognition, metaphors provide one of the clearest illustrations of this relationship”. The objectives of the research are as follows: to identify metaphorical collocations with the words scent, fragrance, aroma, and perfume in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA); to identify and describe the source domains of the collected metaphorical collocations; to relate source domains to underlying conceptual metaphors; to determine the frequency distribution of the identified source domains. Source Domains of Smell Related Metaphorical Collocations: allowed to produce most frequent collocates list of the nodes. The collocations that were not identified in COCA collocations frequency list but were found in OCDE were manually searched in COCA and analysed to characterize as many as possible source domains of metaphorical collocations with smell related words. The analysis of source domains and conceptual metaphors with target words was performed in this order: scent, fragrance, aroma, perfume. The corpus did not contain all possible word combinations; some possible metaphorical collocations might be missing from this research
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