ASSESSMENT AND SYMBOLIC RICHNESS OF THE OPPOSITION ‘ACUTE – BLUNT’
The author analyses the peculiarities of one of key axiological metaphorical oppositions ‘acute– blunt’ as a marker in the process of evaluation of reality. She describes the design features of its semantic space, highlighting the symbolic level – especially important for complex axiological processes. Based on data from modern dictionaries and texts of Russian National Corpus, distinguishes and characterizes aspects of life for interpretation of which a person uses this antonymic dyad. The author comes to the conclusion that the studied axiologic metaphorical binary opposition ‘acute – blunt’ fits into the general system of world coordinates, consisting of spatial, temporal, parametric, color and other opposites that help a person to find himself in a diverse world.
Keywords: opposition, axiological, metaphorical, symbolic meaning
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Issue: 6, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY
Pages: 85 — 89
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