Somatic Code of Russian and English Linguistic Cultures: Figurative Features of Macroconcepts Zemlya and Earth / Land
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-2-533-540
Abstract
The research featured somatic conceptual metaphors in Russian and English linguistic cultures. The article focuses on the macroconcepts of zemlya and earth / land in fiction represented in the National Russian Language Corpus and the Guttenberg Library. The research revealed a great number of somatic metaphors of the earth in these linguistic cultures. The research objective was to observe the facts of Russian and English linguistic cultures in the somatic code description from the perspective of macroconcepts zemlya and earth / land. Somatisms proved to be expressed via traditional oppositions determined by Russian and English cultures: right side / left side; internal / external; male / female; singularity / multiplicity, etc. However, the somatic code appeared to manifest itself not only in the dichotomy, but also in the trichotomy, e.g. front / side / rear; top / middle / bottom; center / binders / periphery. Both linguistic cultures give the earth animate and spiritual traits. The Russian macroconcept zemlya was represented by the following somatic signs: side, eyes, chest, intestine, bone, blood, palms, face, bosom, floor, navel, mouth, hands, heart, back, body, spine / backbone, and belly / womb. The English macroconcept earth / land was represented by such somatic signs as side, chest, gut, blood, face, bosom, floor, navel, mouth, hands, saddle, heart, waist, body, spine / backbone, and belly / womb.
About the Author
E. A. Moshina
Military Engineering and Technical Institute of the A. V. Khrulev Military Academy of Material and Technical Support
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena A. Moshina
St. Petersburg
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