Corpus research on the use and meaning of "burn out"

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Korpusna studija o korištenju i značenju burn out-a
• Author: Monija Škriljevečki
• Mentor: Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (mentor)
• Committee member: Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Marina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Višnja Josipović-Smojver (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2019-09-26, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

This thesis explores the literal and metaphorical use of burn out. Based on a corpus study of native English written works, and related literary work, it argues that burn out is motivated by the literal conceptual frame of A FIRE STOPPING TO BURN and its relating properties. These properties include heat, light, smoke, use of burnables and energy, burning sensation, and working as a selective eliminator and destructor. Except for the literal meaning of burn out directly involving fire, the thesis presents significantly more uses of metaphorical extensions of fire and its properties. The most prominent are exhaustion, death, and the end of a time period, expressed through the conceptual domains of light bulbs, the Sun and machines.

• Keywords: Burn out; fire; metaphor; conceptual relations
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:202657
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL; Course: Linguistics; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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• Created on: 2019-10-02 14:18:55