BSU bulletin. Philosophy
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SPATIAL METAPHOR IN FORMATION OF ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2017. №3. Филология. Philology. - С. 64-68.
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SPATIAL METAPHOR IN FORMATION OF ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS
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It is known that phraseological units of language are means of reflecting a person's vi- sion of the world. The article deals with the phraseological units demonstrating human intellectual abilities. Particular attention is paid to the figurative component of these units. Image of space is the underlying. The category of space is one of the fundamental in the concept of worldview. This fact explains great number of word combinations of different invariability, based on a metaphorical rethinking of various spatial relation- ships between objects of reality in different languages. Spatial metaphor is presented as one of the ways of forming phraseological units. Spatial features that characterize hu- man mental activity are the basis of the considered units. With the help of phraseologi- cal units the metaphorical models of mental activity “up–down", "forward–backward", "inside–out" and others are realized.
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metaphor; metaphorical model; spatial metaphor; mental activity; characte- rization; source domain; target domain.
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