Dream interpretation in the Assyrian Dream Book: The invention of tradition
... of dreams in the ancient Assyrian text known as the Dream Book. Its basic characteristics include belief in the prophetic power of dreams, ritual orientation to men, regard for image polysemy and the use of symbols, employment of such mechanisms as metaphor, metonymy, pragmatic shifts, patronymic attraction, replacements based on the antonym principle. These mechanisms are identified as underlying the formation of symbolic content structures.
1. Берестнев Г. И. Слово, язык и ...
Feminization of lexical changes as a problem of gender linguistics
... feminization of lexical changes in the light of gender linguistics. The article analyses the
means of expressing gender in the modern French by studying feministic neologisms which appeared in the language as a result of word-building processes and metaphorical transfer of meaning. In order to prove the universality of the feminization tendency of lexical changes for the European languages the facts of German and English are also assayed.
1. Гак В. Г. Теоретическая грамматика ...
The metaphor as a means of colour and light perception in M. Voloshin’s idiostyle
The poetic texts of M. Voloshin help consider the metaphorical use of mineralogical lexis as a means of light and colour perception. The author identifies the features of semantic and aesthetic realization of these lexemes and stresses their representative function within the structure of poetic images....
Some aspects of time verbalisation in the English and Russian languages
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25. Alverson H. Semantics and experience. Universal Metaphors of Time in English, Mandarin, Hindi and Sesotho. L., 1994.
26. Anstatt T. «Zeit»: Motivierungen and Strukturen der Bedeutungen von Zeitbezeichnungen in slawischen and anderen Sprachen. München, 1996.
27. Buck Ch. D. A Dictionary of selected ...
Peculiarities of the figurative in the concept of "Time" in middle English
The article examines the most typical for Middle English metaphorical and metonymic shifts of meaning which represent figurative part of time concept. It is proved that the most frequent shifts are: time — event or state, time — traveler or moving object, space — time, time — master, time — system ...
Acute syndrome of reunification: “Nox” by Thomas Hettche
... novel «Nox» by German writer T. Hettche. The authorreveals «painful points» of the epoch-making historical event at the moment of the heroes' transition from life to death and vice versa. The article analyses a whole variety of developed multilevel metaphors illustrating the painful process of German-German reunification.
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Сultural landscapes and socio-economic conditioning of modern landscape development
... Туровский Р. Ф. Культурные ландшафты России. М., 1998.
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The textual concept "the society of consumption" in the novel "99 francs" by Frederic Beigbeder
... provides the analysis of the macroconcept structure of the "society of consumption" in the novel "99 Francs" by a contemporary French writer Frederic Beigbeder. The paper reveals the ideological role of advertising as a socio-cultural metaphor of the society in question, whose main characteristic features are anomie and callousness.
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