The Personality of Vegetables: Botanical Metaphors for Human Characteristics |
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Authors: | Robert Sommer |
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Institution: | University of California, Davis |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT A dictionary search indicated that fruit and vegetable metaphors for human characteristics were relatively infrequent When used, they were more likely to describe physical than personality attributes, often with euphemistic overtones, and fruit metaphors reflected more favorable characteristics than did vegetable metaphors These findings were confirmed in a semantic analysis of fruit, vegetable, and animal terms |
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