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Language and Text
2016. Vol. 3, no. 2, 86–90
doi:10.17759/langt.2016030209
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

To the question of the cultural identity of metaphors

 
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Abstract

The article is devoted to consideration of the metaphor from the perspective of cultural linguistics as a new area of knowledge that studies the interaction between language and culture. It demonstrates some metaphor characteristics as one of the figurative - expressive means. The article emphasizes the importance of metaphors to reflect national-cultural specificity of a language.

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Keywords: metaphor, national-cultural specificity, worldview, descriptive language means, visual means of language, cultural connotation

Journal rubric: Intercultural Communication and Problems of Globalization: Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030209

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For citation: Pavlishak, T.A. (2016). To the question of the cultural identity of metaphors. Language and Text, 3(2), 86–90. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030209

© Pavlishak T.A., 2016

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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T. A. Pavlishak, Candidate of Science (Philology), Department of Linguodidactic and Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Foreign Languages, MSUPE, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: tatiana_lap@mail.ru

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