Conceptual Metaphores of Time in the Lithuanian Language

Authors

  • Saulė Juzelėnienė Kaunas University of Technology

Abstract

The analysis of the current research is based on the theoretical and practical framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson (1980, 1989, 1999), and works of Turner (1987), Kövecses (2002). The conceptual metaphor functions as a succinct representation of the structural relationship between an abstract notion (e.g. time) and a more concrete one (e.g. moving object). It generally has a structure represented as: X IS Y, where X stands for more abstract concept and Y for the lesser one. We shall view this structuring as a mapping of the terms from the Y domain back onto the corresponding elements of the X domain - from source to target. The purpose

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Published

2007-11-15

Issue

No. 11 (2007)

Section

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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