Le metafore di intensificazione in russo: la realizzazione linguistica del concetto di COMPLETEZZA Valentina Benigni Roma Tre University, Italy This is a section of Contributi italiani al XVI Congresso Internazionale degli Slavisti(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8) by Maria Chiara Ferro, Laura Salmon, Giorgio Ziffer Firenze University Press Firenze 2018 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8.10

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Adopting a data based approach, the study explores Russian intensifying metaphors of COMPLETENESS. A wide range of instantiations of the metaphor of COMPLETENESS is analyzed within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), comprising achievement of a result (soveršennyj idiot), filled container (nabityj durak) and round form (kruglyj otličnik). The contrastive perspective (Russian-English-Italian) provides new insights on the mapping of the source domain of COMPLETENESS onto the target domain of INTENSITY in different languages and cultures.

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