COGNITIVE MODELS OF FIGURATIVE MEANING FORMATION OF PLANT NAMES

COGNITIVE MODELS OF FIGURATIVE MEANING FORMATION OF PLANT NAMES

Author:  А.G. Dementyeva

Abstract: 
The article is devoted to the study of the figurative meanings of plant names on the example of Russian and English languages. Cognitive mechanisms of figurative meaning formation of plant names in literature are identified and described.

Keywords:  plant names, figurative meaning, cognitive models, cognitive mechanisms, «perspective», «composition», «completion», «elaboration»