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RAMIREZ ALVAREZ, Maikel  y  RAMIREZ DIAZ, Ana María. Metaphors and metonymies of the informer in six venezuelan everyday language expressions. Revista de Investigación [online]. 2013, vol.37, n.79, pp.69-84. ISSN 1010-2914.

The objective was analyzing the conceptual metaphors which represent (the)  informer  (a)  in  the  Venezuelan  daily  speech.  Theoretically,  based on  theoretical  precepts  cognitive  linguistics,  metaphor,  metonymy  and prototypicality  proposed  by  Cuenca  and  Hilferty  (1999),  Pinker  (2007), Lakoff and Johnson (2009), among others. As for the body, constituted six metaphorical expressions, drawn from blogs, dictionaries and newspaper articles. As a result, it is mentioned that the Spanish speakers of Venezuela metaforizan  the  act  of  betraying  in  two  ways:  the  ontological  and orientational. In conclusion, the speakers use metaphorical expressions because  they  believe  the  informer  as  someone  with  socially  accepted behavior.  Which  leads  to  manifest  their  mental  representations  through metaphorical expressions that reduce the individual to a body part.

Palabras clave : Informer.

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