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

MOVEMENT METAPHOR IN THE SPACE OF THOUGHT (ON THE BASIS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE)

MOVEMENT METAPHOR IN THE SPACE OF THOUGHT (ON THE BASIS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE)


Author:  R.V. Belyutin

Abstract
The article reviews peculiarities of how movement metaphor functions in the process of con-struction of the conceptual space «Gedanke» (thought) image constituent. Movement category activation is connected with involving into metaphor building mechanism a whole complex of frame vectors combined into one structured semantic field «movement». At the linguistic level different parts of speech participate in the formation of intra-pattern metaphoric elements connection; each of them implies a certain «movement» characteristic.

Pages:  88-94

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