Excerpt from Das Tier im Spiegel der Sprache: Ein Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Bedeutungslehre
Ferner sei darauf hingewiesen, daß Untersuchungen uber Tiermetaphern der Völkerpsychologie einen nicht un wesentlichen Dienst erweisen, indem nämlich aus der meta phorischen und phraseologischen Verwertung von Tiern amen sich ein Schluß ziehen läßt auf das gemütliche Verhältnis des Menschen zum Tiere. Da sich diese Studie auf einem Gebiete bewegt, woselbst Tierbiologie und Folklore mit der Linguistik in engste Berührung kommen, so dürften die Vertreter der erstgenannten Wissenschaften in diesen Blättern gleichfalls manches finden, was sie interessiert.
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