Tambov
All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

SPECIFICITY OF FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL METAPHOR AND METAPHOR-TERM IN INDIVIDUAL LEXICON

SPECIFICITY OF FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL METAPHOR AND METAPHOR-TERM IN INDIVIDUAL LEXICON


Author:  O.S. Zoubkova

Abstract
This article deals with the results of psycholinguistic experiment concerning medical metaphor and medical metaphor-term functioning in the individual lexicon. Research was carried out in different kinds of discourse, namely: in political, naive and medical, thus metaphor is considered to be property of a person. Psycholinguistic approach gives the basis to speak about dynamism of metaphor in the in-dividual's lexicon.

Pages:  84-89

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