SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: R.S. Kimov
Affiliation: Kabardino-Balkar State University named after H.M. Berbekov
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the conceptualization of madness in Kabardian. It is shown that human mind in the norm (mental health) is metaphorically conceptualized through the prism of a vertically ordered structure, whereas madness (mental disorder) is associated with the disturbance of the structure.
Keywords: мadness, naïve consciousness, conceptual source, spatial situation, figure, ground, locative complex, metonymy, metaphor, metaphtonymy