Gender Metaphors in Modern American Prose

Anna Kaspryshyn1 ms.kaspryshyn [at] gmail.com
  1. Department of Applied Linguistics, Lviv Polytechnic National University, UKRAINE, Lviv, 12 S. Bandera Street
Abstract 

The research paper presents analysis of gender metaphors in the works by modern American authors – Jay Asher, Nicholas Sparks, Laurie Halse Anderson and Lorrie Moore. In this paper the metaphors with the donor zones of man and woman are analysed. Age parameters and relationships are taken into account.

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