Published: 2021-12-14

You gobble like a hog! Eat like a human!: On Some Linguistic Stereotypes Related to Food

Agnieszka Gasz Logo ORCID

Abstract

Eating (consumption) is a life activity characteristic of both humans and animals. Therefore, it determines a certain common area combining two different perspectives of interdisciplinary research, which are respectively referred to as food studies and animal studies. The article focuses on the discussion of the most common linguistic stereotypes related to eating. On the basis of the analysis of the most frequently used Polish phraseologisms, including verbs ‘eat’ and ‘gobble’, an attempt will be made to detect the basic connotative components of their meaning, and at the same time, to reconstruct the emerging linguistic image of food stemming from them. In the course of the analysis of the investigated language sample, the author uses selected research procedures formulated in the area of culture semantics (elements of cognitive definition, notational metaphor, animalisation).

Keywords:

a human , animal , food , stereotype , language

Citation rules

Gasz, A. (2021). You gobble like a hog! Eat like a human!: On Some Linguistic Stereotypes Related to Food. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (8), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.08.10

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No. 2 (8) (2021)
Published: 2022-01-12


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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