| Autor: |
Dobrovol'skij, Dmitrij |
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Folia Linguistica; 1995, Vol. 29 Issue 3/4, p317-346, 30p |
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The aim of this article is to present new methods of idiom-analysis. Study of the German idioms denoting FEAR revealed that idioms play an important role in the linguistic ontologization of emotions. Imaginative associations provided by idioms have to be taken into account while describing emotional concepts and improving their lexicographical representation. The evidence reported here suggests that the idioms referring to the same concept and forming a semantic field can be analyzed according to their metaphorical and/or metonymical nature in terms of relevant source domain. This approach allows to consider semantic relations between the idioms of a given target domain as a kind of network based on people's conceptual knowledge. and reveal some evidence of possible links between idioms in the mental lexicon. The findings presented in this paper also lend credence to the idea growing in cognitive linguistics that the figurative units of language express certain underlying mental features which systematically contribute to conceptualization and influence our model of the world. Contrary to the traditional view, the empirical results described here demonstrate that the cognitive based metaphor- and prototype-theories are compatible with ideas of semantic decomposition developed in structural semantics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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