Cognition and Society. Treatment Forms at the Dawn of Feudalism: Señor and the Honorific Formulas with -ísimo
The objective of this study is to delve into the origin of two treatment formulas: señor, from senior “older”, and those with the superlative suffix. Both are very closely linked to the imposition of a new social model, feudalism, which is characterized by organizing itself on a vertical social sc...
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| Language: | Catalan |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Verba Hispanica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/VerbaHispanica/article/view/8337 |
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| Summary: | The objective of this study is to delve into the origin of two treatment formulas: señor, from senior “older”, and those with the superlative suffix. Both are very closely linked to the imposition of a new social model, feudalism, which is characterized by organizing itself on a vertical social scale, coinciding with the scale of quantification characteristic of degree expressions. In both acts the conceptual metaphor is more is up.
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| ISSN: | 0353-9660 2350-4250 |