The relationship between
language and culture has long been a major claim of linguistics. Such connection particularly
shows in the lexicon. Words do not only convey denotational meaning but also cultural
information. Culturally-marked lexis is associated with cultural domains, which are in turn
connected with cultural scripts that contain information about the event itself, the participants
and the place where it takes place. In the present article we illustrate cultural scripts from the
French domain of cooking. The analysis shows the lexical wealth of the domain, highlighted
by the figurative sense of many French food words that generates a remarkable number of
idioms with a positive or negative connotation. The study of the food idiomatic expressions
in the French language is undertaken from a semantic and a syntactic perspective.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
ISBN:978-2-8124-4146-2
EAN:9782812441462
ISSN: 2262-0346
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4146-2.p.0245
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 01-05-2012
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: English
Keyword: cultural domain, cultural script, figurative meaning, metaphor, connotation