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MEANS OF REPRESENTATION OF A FALL IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

MEANS OF REPRESENTATION OF A FALL IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE


Author:  Safina Marina R.

Abstract:  The article analyses cognitive mechanisms involved in the representation of falls in English. Based on the selection of utterances describing falls, the types of predicates used to represent falls are determined; the work of conceptual metaphor and metonymy at a sentence pattern level is studied.

Keywords:  fall  ◆  proposition  ◆  sentence pattern  ◆  cognitive metaphor  ◆  cognitive metonymy

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