| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of this paper work is to describe a part of the concepts, represented in Lithuanian language by the words mirtis (death) and mirti (to die). The objectives to achieve the aim of the paper work are: 1) to define conception of the terms of traditional methaphor and conceptual metaphor; 2) divide to conceptual metaphors all methaphorical expressions with the noun death; 3) to discuss conceptualization of the verb die; 4) to investigate synonyms of the noun death and the verb die; 5) to discuss phraseological units, which signify the decline of life. The analysis is based on more than 600 examples taken from the book „Dvidešimto amžiaus lietuvių poezija“ (I, II parts). Having analysed a number of ways of representing the concept of death in the Lithuanian poetry, we can point out the basic tendencies of realizing the concept: DEATH as a PERSON, DEATH as a ENEMY, DEATH as a THING, DEATH as an ABSTRACT, DEATH as a NATURAL CALAMITY, DEATH as a PLACE / RECEPTACLE, DEATH as a LIVING BEING, DEATH as a WORK OF ART, DEATH as a MATERIAL, DEATH as an ANIMAL, DEATH as a PLANT, DEATH as a SOUND, DEATH as a TIME and other. The results of the paper work showed that the death is comprehensible as an evil, decline of life. Only sometimes we describe death as a step to a new world, which is unknown. |
