COGNITIVE, SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF METAPHORICAL NOMINATIONS OF COMPULSION (based on a case study of English verbs)

COGNITIVE, SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF METAPHORICAL NOMINATIONS OF COMPULSION (based on a case study of English verbs)

Author:  Olga V. Romanova

Affiliation:  St.-Petersburg State University of Economics

Abstract:  The article focuses on the cognitive roots underlying the metaphorical usage of some verbs of physical manipulation - squeeze, extract, wring, screw, tear, twist, drag. Such linguistic factors as categorial meaning, combinatorial and syntagmatic relations, context considered to be responsible for actualizing the final meaning of a verb are also analyzed. The author dwells on the type of grammar structure according to which the above-listed verbs are semantically categorized as verbs of compulsion.

Keywords:  cognitive interpretation  ◆  metaphorization  ◆  metaphorical nominations  ◆  compulsion  ◆  causativeness  ◆  causative verb  ◆  grammar structure

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