Author: E.G. Beliaevskaya
Affiliation: Moscow State Linguistic University
Abstract:
The paper puts forward an assumption that conceptual metaphors (or metaphoric concepts), like other conceptual structures, are characterized by profiling both in context and in the language system. Conceptual metaphors representing time in English and in Russian are used to illustrate the point.
Keywords: metaphoric concepts, conceptual structures, focusing/ profiling, conceptual representation of time