OUTLINE: of my project:
Frish and Frosh Experiment
Here is the outline of my experiment:
Research: the vowels and sounds used in words that mean "big, small" etc. in *Sri Lankan, spanish, and french.
1. Following the procedure of the Frish vs. Frosh experiment, I will see if their conclusion holds true with international students.
2. I will have one or two native speakers of english as a control. I will then use one native speaker of sri lankan, spanish, and perhaps french. *note: the languages are tentative.
3. I will take the experiment one step further: I will give the participants two bowls of icecream: one named frish and the other frosh. I will tell them that they are the different icecreams they read about.
4. But there is a catch: actually they are eating the same ice cream.
5. Will what they have read about the icecreams affect how they feel the icecream tastes? Will one icecream taste better than the other?
6. Powerpoint presentation, perhaps.
I found it quite difficult to think up foods as metaphors that haven't already been discussed or read. There are also many food metaphors that pretty much mean similar things.
Pomegranate: fecundity, sexuality,
The clearest example I could think of was the Greek myth of Persephone, daughter of the Goddess of Fertility and Wheat, Demeter. She is seduced by Pluto into marrying him. She eats some pomegranate seeds and thus she is condemned to spend an eternity in the Underworld. Pomegranate is not only a metaphor for fertility but also some sort of sexual symbol. In this case Pluto uses the pomegranate as some sort of marriage contract. The seeds of the pomegranate are like the individual sperm
I also found this really interesting book "Food: A Dictionary" by Robert A. Palmitier that talks about the myth of Persephone. His take on the pomegranate is that it's seeds are metaphor for the sexual union between a man and a woman. I recommend it for anyone who liked reading the "Woman as dessert" piece.
The second
meat:
"Look's like we've got ourselves some fresh meat (freshman girls) boys!"
"What a hunk!" hunk of meat
meaty topics
Meat can connote largeness, or it can represent the human body (like in the first two)
Frish and Frosh Experiment
Here is the outline of my experiment:
Research: the vowels and sounds used in words that mean "big, small" etc. in *Sri Lankan, spanish, and french.
1. Following the procedure of the Frish vs. Frosh experiment, I will see if their conclusion holds true with international students.
2. I will have one or two native speakers of english as a control. I will then use one native speaker of sri lankan, spanish, and perhaps french. *note: the languages are tentative.
3. I will take the experiment one step further: I will give the participants two bowls of icecream: one named frish and the other frosh. I will tell them that they are the different icecreams they read about.
4. But there is a catch: actually they are eating the same ice cream.
5. Will what they have read about the icecreams affect how they feel the icecream tastes? Will one icecream taste better than the other?
6. Powerpoint presentation, perhaps.
I found it quite difficult to think up foods as metaphors that haven't already been discussed or read. There are also many food metaphors that pretty much mean similar things.
Pomegranate: fecundity, sexuality,
The clearest example I could think of was the Greek myth of Persephone, daughter of the Goddess of Fertility and Wheat, Demeter. She is seduced by Pluto into marrying him. She eats some pomegranate seeds and thus she is condemned to spend an eternity in the Underworld. Pomegranate is not only a metaphor for fertility but also some sort of sexual symbol. In this case Pluto uses the pomegranate as some sort of marriage contract. The seeds of the pomegranate are like the individual sperm
I also found this really interesting book "Food: A Dictionary" by Robert A. Palmitier that talks about the myth of Persephone. His take on the pomegranate is that it's seeds are metaphor for the sexual union between a man and a woman. I recommend it for anyone who liked reading the "Woman as dessert" piece.
The second
meat:
"Look's like we've got ourselves some fresh meat (freshman girls) boys!"
"What a hunk!" hunk of meat
meaty topics
Meat can connote largeness, or it can represent the human body (like in the first two)
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