IMAGE SCHEMAS ‘WAY’ AND ‘OBSTACLE’ AS REPRESENTED IN METAPHORS OF SPEECH

IMAGE SCHEMAS ‘WAY’ AND ‘OBSTACLE’ AS REPRESENTED IN METAPHORS OF SPEECH

Author:  Akhmanayeva N.A.

Affiliation:  Ural Federal University

Abstract:  The article deals with presentation of image-schemas «path» and «blockage» in speech activity, consider which speech characteristics could be conceptualized as blockage. Also the author investigates the characteristics that play a key role in building of image-schema «path».

Keywords:  metaphor, spatial metaphor, cognitive linguistics, image-schema, speech activity

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Pages:  440-442