LEXICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF TIME IN MODERN ENGLISH

LEXICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF TIME IN MODERN ENGLISH

Author:  Nikolai N. Boldyrev, Diana V. Makhovikova

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract: 
The paper focuses on cognitive and linguistic mechanisms of time conceptualization and repre-sentation in language. Under special analysis are cognitive schemas which structure the concept TIME and provide the basis for lexical means of time conceptualization in modern English.

Keywords:  time conceptualization, linguistic mechanisms, cognitive mechanisms, cognitive model, cognitive schema, structuring the concept.

Pages:  5-15