Expressiveness: Evaluation, Intensification, Metaphor [The Case of German and Czech Fairy Tale Texts]

Three elements of expressive language -- evaluation, intensification, & metaphor -- are analyzed in a corpus of German & Czech fairy tales, comprising tales drawn from folklore & authorial compositions in each language & their respective translations in the other language. The conception of metaphor in the Anglo-American tradition of cognitive linguistics & its adaptation in the domain & creativity theses proposed by O. Jakel (2003) are applied to eight excerpts & their translations; nine excerpts & their translations reveal the use of intensifiers, & grammatical & text-structural characteristics of evaluative statements are examined in 13 excerpts & their translations. References. J. Hitchcock