Title Kai kurie konceptualiosios akmens metaforos bruožai lietuvių kalbos pasaulėvaizdyje /
Translation of Title Some features of the conceptual metaphor of stone in the world-view of the Lithuanian language.
Authors Papaurėlytė-Klovienė, Silvija
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis. 2008, t. 6, p. 294-301.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] stone ; conceptual metaphor ; language world-view ; naïve psychology
Abstract [eng] The aim of the present paper is to discuss some features of conceptual metaphor of stone in the world-view of the Lithuanian language as well as to describe its lingvocultural particularity. An attempt is made to analyze such body parts and organs of the person which are specified by the peculiarities of stone. The examples are drawn from the Contemporary Lithuanian Language Corpus compiled by Corpus Linguistics Centre at Vytautas Magnus University. The research is conducted within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics and the conceptual metaphor is analyzed according to the issues of this branch of linguistics. Word combinations related to the person’s body parts and organs such as stony (Lith. akmeninis( ė)) and petrified (Lith. suakmenėjęs( usi)) and the combinability of the verb ‘suakmenėti’ (to petrify) are analyzed. As in the real world a person cannot be made of stone, the mentioned word combinations are not sustained by real peculiarities, but by such peculiarities which are ascribed to the objects according to analogy. They can be called the examples which illustrate the reality of the conceptual metaphor of STONE. The conclusion is drawn that the face is mostly perceived and explicitly discussed as stony. Limbs and heart can also be stony. Such tendencies are likely to be determined by the fact that all mentioned objects are in one way or another related to emotions and their expression. Stone is mostly related to the negative emotional experience in the Lithuanian world-view.
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2008