"Cooking" in the minda frame-based contrastive study of culinary metaphors in American English and Peninsular Spanish

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The present thesis aims at identifying and contrasting metaphorical expressions and their underlying conceptual metaphors grounded in the COOKING domain in American English (AmE) and Peninsular Spanish (PenSp). To achieve this aim, this dissertation focuses on metaphors referred to by culinary actions in COCA and Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. This investigation presents a refined version of MIP (Pragglejaz Group, 2007) that integrates frames (Fillmore, 1982) as a semantic tool for characterizing the basic and the contextual senses of words. This procedure allows for identifying the frame elements that are mapped onto other frames in each culture. On the whole, the results of this dissertation expand our knowledge on cross-linguistic metaphor variation by pointing out the scope of culinary metaphors evoked and the cultural salience of those metaphors in AmE and PenSp. Therefore, this study reveals valuable clues on the role of culture in the configuration of specific patterns of metaphorical conceptualization.