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On Invectives in Natural Language: A Panchronic Study of English Synonyms of ‘Skinny’/‘Fatty’

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The author studies the synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ from the cognitive linguistic perspective. The quantum of the analysed lexical items is subdivided into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia.