BINARY ALL USION AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSING A CONCEPT (DATA OF ENGLISH)
The article deals with the peculiarities of using an allusion as one of the means of expressing concepts. An allusion is defined as the mention of the name of a real person, literary character, or historical event which conjures up some extra meaning in new contexts. In accordance with the properties of the person, character, or event, one allusion can represent several concepts in their peripheral fields. The article describes the research data in this area with special emphasis on binary allusions which can be analyzed in discrete and syncretic aspects. Every member of the binary allusion, as a rule, is specifically related to one or another of the concepts, while the two members taken together demonstrate additional conceptual relations characteristic only of their binary usage.
Keywords: concept, binary allusion, background knowledge, discreteness, syncretism
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Issue: 4, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF COGNITIVE AND DISCURSIVE LINGUISTICS
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