La Métaphore en Œnologie

Abstract

The abundance of metaphors in the terminology of the enology led us to investigate their specificity and the process by which they are produced. By applying the cognitive approach of Lakoff and Johnson, we reconstituted the conceptual metaphors which underlie their surface realization as metaphoric expressions. Our findings disclosed the generativity of the BODY metaphor in oenology. After systematizing the conceptual metaphors and investigating their motivation, we continued by a semantic analysis, in the intralinguistic tradition. The description of the semic mechanism in metaphorization revealed the way the semantic network of the wine was reorganized with regard to that of the body.