Metaforas relacionadas ao tema da amizade sob a perspectiva da teoria da metáfora conceptual e da lingüística corpus na série TV'Friends

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Alessandra Bautista da
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14052
• topic: Conceptual metaphors; corpus linguistics; collocates; concord; clusters; Metáfora; metáforas conceptuais; linguística de corpus; linhas de concordância; colocados; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

This study looked at the theme of friendship as it is presented in the American sitcom Friends. The research was carried out by focusing on metaphors and how these metaphors relate to friendship, love and other similar themes. In order to accomplish the aim proposed above, this research drew on Corpus Linguistics as well as on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Corpus Linguistics was used as a theoretical approach and methodology which takes into account large bodies (corpora) of natural linguistic data and a probabilistic view of language. In this study, several computer tools such as Concord, Collocates and Clusters in the software WordSmith Tools 3.0 (Scott, 1998) were employed. According to Lakoff (1993:203), metaphor can be understood as a cross-domain mapping in the conceptual system . The results showed there are several metaphors in the sitcom Friends that lead us to conceptualize friendship in many different ways, such as: LOVE IS CRAZYNESS, LOVE AS A JOURNEY, BOY/GIRLFRIENDS ARE SWEET, for example. As a general conclusion, we may say that the sitcom Friends draws on a number of metaphors centering around the theme of friendship which in turn lends consistency and thematic unit to the series as a whole. Moreover, in a sense, the series redefines friendship, by blending topics such as sex, childhood, youth and partnership. Arguably, part of the success of the series may be due to these