Title: METAPHORS IN EXPLORING EMOTIONAL CONCEPTS IN THE TATAR AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
Abstract: The research deals with cognition, understanding and metaphorical way of knowledge presentation. It says thata metaphor is not a mere poetic or eloquent device, as people used to refer to it, it is a general framing mechanism enabling people to explain one notion in terms of another. In most cases it contributes to better representation of commonly known facts and ideas. The following methods were employed in the research: contrastive, descriptive; method of definition analysis, contextual analysis, continuous sampling and statistic estimation.300 idioms with body parts names were examined for the research purposes. This paper unveils the power of metaphoric use of idioms and, namely, idioms containing body parts names. As the research is carried out in two genetically unrelated languages – English and Tatar, it provides a valuable insight in cultural perception of two different ethnic groups. It bears noting that no research concerning linguacultural analysis of body part names and their emotional potential has been undertaken before.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-07-22
Language: en
Type: article
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