'What a kitty!': Women’s physical appearance and animal metaphors in Montenegro

IF 0.6 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Violeta Vujković, Milica Vuković-Stamatović
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Abstract

Animals present a common source of metaphors conceptualising humanity, and, consequently, women. The aim of this paper is to explore how women's physical appearance is conceptualised through animal metaphors in Montenegrin webpages (the. me domain). We find that women's looks are most often likened to those of a cat (kitten, kitty), fish, mare, snake, tigress, and duck. The choice of an animal that a woman is compared to and the associated characteristics reflect entrenched cultural views which prioritise women's physical appearance. By comparing our results to those from the scholarly literature, we also conclude that the choice of some metaphors may be culturally specific to Montenegro and/or perhaps the wider Western Balkan region.
“好一只小猫!”:黑山女性的外貌和动物隐喻
动物是人类概念化隐喻的常见来源,因此,女性也是如此。本文的目的是探讨妇女的身体外观是如何概念化通过动物隐喻在黑山网页。我的域)。我们发现,女人的长相最常被比作猫(小猫、小猫)、鱼、母马、蛇、母老虎和鸭子。女性选择与之比较的动物及其相关特征反映了根深蒂固的文化观念,即优先考虑女性的外表。通过将我们的结果与学术文献的结果进行比较,我们还得出结论,一些隐喻的选择可能是黑山和/或更广泛的西巴尔干地区的文化特有的。
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