Romanian Words and Set Expressions Designating Pies

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to approach the Romanian culinary terminology by assuming the
gains from the space of nowadays’ linguistics, in an attempt to respond to the challenge formulated by
Eugenio Coseriu regarding the study of language as a creative activity that justifies linguistics as a
science of culture. Food knowledge discourses are an extremely important source of documentation
for explaining the mechanisms of linguistic creation. The way Romanian terms and expressions
related to pies are formed and function is a relevant example to illustrate the relationship between the
act of naming and its path to figurativeness.