METAPHOR PROBLEM AS DOMAIN OVERLAPPING IN DISCOURSE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

METAPHOR PROBLEM AS DOMAIN OVERLAPPING IN DISCOURSE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

Author:  I.A. Kudryashov, A.F. Panteleev

Affiliation:  Southern Federal University

Abstract: 

On defining the phenomenon of the metaphor within the framework of the communication we use both linguistic and conceptual metaphors with the aim of re-vealing which of them are being interpreted by the language users participating in the discursive activity actually as metaphors. The purpose of selecting this kind of the linguistic material is establishing the inventory of all the linguistic forms which potentially correlate with the underlying processes of conceptual domain bending. The further conceptual analysis is to reconstruct these kinds of domains. In this case the actual is the question on which formal, conceptual and communicative aspects of the metaphor semiotic structure can signal its intentional usage. For exhausting answering the question it is reasonable to create the definite methods which in their turn are to be tested in practice.

Keywords:  language and thinking, metaphor, domains, discourse conceptual structure, individual knowledge

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Pages:  164-168