BODY METAPHOR IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURES

The article focuses on the identification of ethnocultural peculiarities of body metaphor functioning in differentstructure languages – English and Russian. According to cognitive theory, human reason arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experience. Language material, however, su...

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Published in:Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
Main Author: Yu. A. Bashkatova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kemerovo State University 2013-06-01
Subjects:
embodiment
body metaphor
cultural linguistics
somatism
ethnocultural peculiarities
Online Access:https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/129
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Summary:The article focuses on the identification of ethnocultural peculiarities of body metaphor functioning in differentstructure languages – English and Russian. According to cognitive theory, human reason arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experience. Language material, however, suggests the necessity of taking into account cultural factors of body metaphor formation.
ISSN:2078-8975
2078-8983

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