Verbal synaesthesia in the Polish corpus of synaesthetic metaphors

This paper offers the use of figurative language found in online blogs and used as source material for the research project Synamet, the aim of which is to create a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus of synaesthetic metaphors for Polish. A particular emphasis of the proposed article is laid upon the verbal synaes¬thesia found in the corpus. It is argued that the analysis of synaesthetic metaphors found in the material depicts some limitations of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory as proposed by Lakoff & Johnson (2008 /1980/) when applied to discourse analysis. Therefore, more efficient methods of describing figurative expressions should be elaborated.