VERBALIZATION OF NON-REALITY IN PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH

VERBALIZATION OF NON-REALITY IN PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH

Author:  Andrei E. Levitsky

Affiliation:  Moscow State University

Abstract:  The article is based on dictionaries and English folk-tales. The main criteria of the non-real world presentation as well as the methodology of investigation of nonreality have been singled out. The above methodology applies frame modeling for identifying linguocognitive parameters and classification features of the concept NON-REALITY in English.

Keywords:  linguocognitive space, concept, non-reality, frame structure, verbalization.

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