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Conceptualization of Pejorative Zoometaphors in American English Linguoculture
- Authors: Smurova O.V.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(898) (2025)
- Pages: 87-93
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/291916
- ID: 291916
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The article examines conventional zoometaphors with negative connotations functioning in American English linguoculture with the aim to study the cognitive mechanism of actualization of pejorative evaluative meanings in statements containing such metaphors. Based on the achievements of axiology and the cognitive theory of metaphor, the author describes the mechanism of zoometaphor formation and analyzes the interaction of evaluative and metaphorical meanings in an utterance. The following methods are used in the work: contextual analysis, cognitive analysis and the method of quantitative calculations. The research material is based on examples obtained by continuous sampling from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The result of the study is the identification and substantiation of the cognitive mechanism of zoometaphor formation, which includes several stages and several types of conceptual projections.
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Olga Vladimirovna Smurova
Moscow State Linguistic University
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Email: olsmurova@yandex.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor at the Department of English Grammar and the History of the English Language
Faculty of the English Language,
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