Marta Falkowska
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marta Falkowska plays a role.
Articles
2021 Metaphors in Polish, English, Russian, and French perfumery discourse: A comparative study Metaphor and the Social World 11:1, pp. 143–170 | Article
This paper examines metaphors in perfume reviews in four languages, namely Polish, English, Russian, and French. Some typical features of the perfumery discourse, similar across the four languages, have been highlighted, such as clustering, extension, and mixing metaphors. The authors also… read more
2021 Typology of metaphors with the olfactory target domain in the Polish perfumery discourse The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 449–474 | Chapter
The relative scarcity of lexical olfactory field in Polish makes it difficult to describe the complex and subjective sensation of smell. Unsurprisingly, the Polish perfumery discourse is permeated with various types of metaphors. This chapter proposes a typology of metaphors on the basis of… read more