ARCHETYPICAL OPPOSITION SELF – OTHER AS A CONCEPTUAL BASE OF ENGLISH ADJECTIVES MEANING
Author:
Marina B. Antonova
Affiliation:
National Research University «Higher School of Economics»
Abstract:
The article focuses on the conceptual structures determining the semantics of English adjectives that denote a human being’s mental characteristics. It is argued that the archetypical opposition SELF – OTHER forms the conceptual base of semantics of certain adjectives in question. The author describes how this conceptual opposition is realized in the meanings of the adjectives.
Keywords:
conceptual oppositions, conceptual base of lexical semantics, conceptual metaphor
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