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Language and Text
2016. Vol. 3, no. 4, 130–137
doi:10.17759/langt.2016030410
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

Linguistic and cultural interpretation metaphors from the N.S.Leskov's tale "Lefty"

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T.A. Pavlishak

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Abstract

The article is devoted to consideration of metaphor from the perspective of cultural linguistics and cognitive science. It highlights selected metaphors from the N.S. Leskov's tale and discovers their didactic potential through disclosure of some characteristics of interpretation as a productive activity.

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Keywords: metaphor, figurative language, figurative language, cognitive linguistics, metaphorical thinking, theory of conceptual metaphor, linguistic and cultural interpretation, productive activity, communicative skills, cognitive structure, story, genre.

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

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2016030410

For citation: Pavlishak T.A. Linguistic and cultural interpretation metaphors from the N.S.Leskov's tale "Lefty" [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2016. Vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 130–137. DOI: 10.17759/langt.2016030410. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

T. A. Pavlishak, PhD in Philology, Department of Linguodidactic and Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Foreign Languages, MSUPE, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: tatiana_lap@mail.ru

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