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"As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes
2020. urn:nbn:hr:142:128904
Maras, Lea
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Maras, L. (2020). "As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

Maras, Lea. ""As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

Maras, Lea. ""As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

Maras, L. (2020). '"As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 09 December 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

Maras L. "As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2020 [cited 2024 December 09] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

L. Maras, ""As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2020. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:128904

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Title"As blood-red as a raw steak": a study of creativity in English [as ... as] similes
Title (croatian)"As blood-red as a raw steak": istraživanje o kreativnosti u engleskim [as ... as] poredbenim frazemima
AuthorLea Maras
MentorGabrijela Buljan (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2020-09-09, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore creative modifications of figurative [as...as] similes. While earlier studies have shown little regard for the grammatical and lexical properties of similes (Norrick 1987:145), recent studies have tried to remedy the situation (e.g. Hao and Veale 2010; Veale 2012). Similes have often been explored for how similar or different they are to metaphors or literal comparison, rather than being judged on their own merit (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Glucksberg & Keysar 1990, cited in Israel et al. 2004:123). At the same time the possibility of their modification and their overall flexibility has not been studied extensively, even though similes do modify, especially in less formal registers. This paper focuses solely on similes and their creative modifications. In the very introduction to this paper, we do explore how similes differ from metaphors and literal comparisons and discuss in general how and why phraseological units change. In the analysis, we focus on similes selected from the 13,000 [as...as] comparisons retrieved automatically from three electronic sources, viz. the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the Iweb corpus, and Google. Our goal is to explore two factors that may contribute to their propensity for modification. Specifically, we hypothesize that i. the presence of corresponding comparative nounadjective compounds (CNACs), i.e. as light as a feather vs. feather-light and ii. the coding of directly perceived properties are important properties of similes that make them susceptible to modification. The data collected and analyzed supports both hypotheses.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:128904
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Pedagogy (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) pedagogije)
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