{"title":"What frequencies tell us of the foodstuffs used as source domain to conceptualize attractive people in Peninsular\u0000 Spanish","authors":"Margarita García-Romero","doi":"10.1075/cogls.00115.gar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00115.gar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper offers a study of the foodstuffs used by speakers of Peninsular Spanish when referring to an attractive\u0000 individual. Two online forums were scanned to automatically search for linguistic realizations of the metaphor an attractive\u0000 individual is appetizing food. A corpus of 860 short texts was compiled, which contains the food terms used in context.\u0000 The frequency distribution of the type of food and the variable of gender was measured. Results indicate a preference to exploit\u0000 the metaphor through salty food products and that the foodstuffs used are highly dependent on the variable of gender. Contrary to\u0000 previous studies (e.g., Caitlin Hines 2000; Irene\u0000 López Rodríguez 2007, 2008), the frequency of sweets and desserts is not\u0000 higher with female referents. The findings do not agree with prior assumptions about the foodstuffs used in Peninsular Spanish to\u0000 conceptualize attractive people and the cultural stereotypes associated with them.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"79 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141376618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}