All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”
Author: N.A. Kobrina
Abstract:
This paper is designed to illustrate and bring together different approaches within this problem. The prevailing viewpoint is that concepts mostly are the starting point of verbalization and they determine the form and meaning of the chosen elements. However, we find in the system of any language image-based structures, set-phrases, etc., which lose with time their original concrete meaning and acquire conceptual meaning, turning into general truisms or sayings with a fixed communicative value. The present article also deals with different such-like cases.
Pages: 59-69