REFLECTION OF SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HUMAN HEAD AND THEIR COGNITIVE PROCESSING IN ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS

Autor: Tuarmenskaya A.V.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Vol 48, Iss 12 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2313-0288
2411-2968
DOI: 10.18454/RULB.2023.48.41
Popis: This research is carried out within the framework of cognitive linguistics and is devoted to the problem of interrelation between the language and spatial perception of the surrounding world. It aims at identifying how spatial characteristics of an object and further cognitive processing of spatial experience affect the meaning of phraseological units. The study focuses on English set expressions with the word head. Due to the fact that human perception is anthropocentric, the head as a vitally important part of the body serves an essential reference point in space orientation. English phraseological units show that in statics, the human head is perceived as the upper part of a vertically oriented body. In dynamics, it is viewed as its upper-front part. The idea that the head has a round shape is also reflected in the English phraseology. Cognitive processing of spatial characteristics of the human head makes it possible to apply this word in reference to the top part of inanimate objects. And metaphorical transference allows to describe non-spatial, for example, social relations in terms of spatial ones. Studying the manifestation of spatial experience in the language helps to clarify complex interconnection between different elements of human cognition.
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