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CONCEPTUALIZATION AND METAPHORIC SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE QUALITY OF AN OBJECT RELATION

CONCEPTUALIZATION AND METAPHORIC SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE QUALITY OF AN OBJECT RELATION


Author:  Yenina Anna D.

Abstract:  The paper focuses on the syntactic means of the English language representing the quality of an object relation through conceptual metaphor. The author attempts to analyze the basis for the metaphoric transfer in the structural schemes cited and, consequently, conceptualization mechanisms of the relation in question.

Keywords:  conceptual metaphor  ◆  syntactic representation  ◆  proposition  ◆  structural scheme  ◆  quality of an object

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