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Published 10/10/2013
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Grüning, H.-G. (2013). Gastronomische metaphorik und nationalcharakter. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 20(2), 195–212. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/299
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Abstract
Food metaphors can be used to characterize, often pejoratively, a person or groups of persons which have different gastronomic habits. Taking as a starting point a semantic analysis, the research focuses on the use of the gastronomic metaphor either in the political satire (Hogarth, Gillray) or in
authors like V. Imbriani and H. Heine to describe satirically and humorously the members of different social groups or peoples, a technique that in times of war or conflicts may assume polemical and defamatory tones.