Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 55(3), 2019, pp. 601–629 © Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland doi: 10.1515/psicl-2019-0022 METAPHORS IN POLISH WINE DISCOURSE: A CORPUS APPROACH MAGDALENA ZAWISŁAWSKA AND MARTA FALKOWSKA zawisla@uw.edu.pl m.falkowska@uw.edu.pl University of Warsaw ABSTRACT This paper presents various types of metaphors within the emergent wine discourse in Polish. The analysis is corpus-based and it employs examples excerpted from Synamet – a semantically and morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Polish synesthetic meta- phors. Polish wine discourse is juxtaposed against other thematic types of discourse in- cluded in the corpus, e.g., texts devoted to perfume, beer, or music, in order to point to their specificity with respect to metaphorical productivity. This comprehensive study of metaphorical expressions and the statistical analysis of the corpus clearly show which source frames are predominant in the conceptualization of wine taste, and which frame elements are most frequently activated. Apart from lexicalized metaphors, which consti- tute a significant part of Polish metaphorical expressions in wine discourse, we have ob- served many instances of creative elaboration of basic metaphorical images. Polish wine discourse also abounds with atypical metaphors that cannot be fully accounted for in terms of cross-domain mappings. These textual phenomena include layered metaphors, mixed metaphors, and narrative metaphors. The results of the analysis undermine the at- tempts to create a universal model of synesthesia in language, and call into question the existing models of source-to-target mappings for synesthetic metaphors. KEYWORDS: Metaphor; corpus; verbal synesthesia; wine discourse. 1. Introduction The culture of wine tasting is a relatively new phenomenon in Poland. In 2016, wine consumption in Poland amounted to 5.5 liters per capita (and only 3 liters per capita in 2013). While Poland is still far behind other European countries (e.g., in the Czech Republic, people drink 21 liters per capita, in Germany, 28, in Italy, 44, and a typical French person consumes 50 liters of wine yearly), it is Brought to you by | Stockholm University Library Authenticated Download Date | 10/30/19 3:08 AM