MODERN CONCEPTS OF STUDYING PHRASEOLOGISMS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF FRAME REPRESENTATION AND THEORY OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR
Abstract
In the works of recent years along with pragmatic studies of phraseological units, which are still topical, emerged a confident trend for consideration of the phraseological units from the positions of pragmatic linguistics and cognitive linguistics. This article considers how the structures of linguistic knowledge are presented in human mind and how this mental structures take part in language comprehension and production. Further, frame modelling is analyzed in details, with examples on three languages, as the opportunity of structuring the cognition of meaning of the expressions. Moreover, here is conducted the separate consideration of slots of various frames, their meaning in language and the process of division into subframes; frame notion of metalexeme is also given. On the example of the concept of prominent American linguists is drawn attention to such a feature of phrase as the metaphor, imagery and is stated that metaphor does not extend beyond the sphere of language, but it also covers the sphere of thoughts. After reviewing the carried out works it must be concluded that, phraseology appear in the result of metaphorical transfer, reinterpretation of meaning of free word combinations. In every language the metaphor comes into existence based on the specificities of native speakers’ mindset, which is related to ethnocultural and historical characteristics of country. In the result it is understood that, the majority of reviewed conceptual metaphors are identical in the researched languages. This confirms the fact that, metaphorical mechanism possesses universal nature.