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In:Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies
Edited by Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 25] 2026
► pp. 283–302

Metaphorical conceptualisations of inflation in English and Romanian

A corpus-based analysis

 | “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba-Iulia
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Abstract
The paper aims to analyse the linguistic realisations of inflation and inflation-related metaphors in English and Romanian, as well as to capture similarities and dissimilarities in the metaphorical conceptualisations of inflation. The pointers in the analysis of inflation metaphors across two languages are the frequency of linguistic metaphors corroborated with literal and figurative lexis, collocations, intensifiers and modifiers. The research methods adopted comprise both quantitative and qualitative analysis; the quantitative analysis is substantiated with the quantitative analysis which pertains to the frequency of the lemma inflation and its Romanian equivalent inflație as well as the frequency of inflation metaphors across the corpora. The qualitative analysis identifies metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses of the lemmas inflation and inflație and the conceptual categories.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Theoretical framework
  • 2.Methods
  • 3.Results
    • To get close to the inflation target
    • To enter a mild period
  • 4.Conclusions
  • References
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