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<p>The paper studies the language of sadness in English on a corpus of conventional expressions and aims at investigating the choice of prepositions combined with a number of sadness terms (e.g. <italic>sad about his failure, unhappy at his misfortunate, depressed by the news, sorry for being late</italic>). The paper finds that the prepositional phrases name the causes triggering sadness and there are correlations between the prepositions <italic>about, at, by, for</italic> and <italic>over</italic> and the types of causes combined together, which can be explained the metaphorical meanings of the prepositions.</p>
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The paper studies the language of sadness in English on a corpus of conventional expressions and aims at investigating the choice of prepositions combined with a number of sadness terms (e.g. sad about his failure, unhappy at his misfortunate, depressed by the news, sorry for being late). The paper finds that the prepositional phrases name the causes triggering sadness and there are correlations between the prepositions about, at, by, for and over and the types of causes combined together, which can be explained the metaphorical meanings of the prepositions.

Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The paper studies the language of sadness in English on a corpus of conventional expressions and aims at investigating the choice of prepositions combined with...

Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness

Published Online: Dec 26, 2023

Page range: 1 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0001

Keywords
cause, emotion, metaphor, metonymy, preposition, sadness

© 2023 Andrea Csillag, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness

Published Online: Dec 26, 2023

Page range: 1 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0001

Keywordscause, emotion, metaphor, metonymy, preposition, sadness

© 2023 Andrea Csillag, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cause, emotion, metaphor, metonymy, preposition, sadness