THE METAPHORICAL MEANS OF THE CONCEPT “TRAITOR” REPRESENTATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The article deals with the peculiarities of language representation of the mental and ethical concept traitor with the help of metaphorical means. The reasons for the benefits of metaphorical means of abstract concept’s representation are given. The survey identifies the anthroponyms associated with the concept traitor in the British conceptual sphere, besides, the peculiarities of their usage as means of verbalization of the studied concept are described. The special attention in the article is devoted to the metaphorical concept Judas that is viewed as an equivalent of the concept traitor. The analysis of the collocations with the word Judas as their cognitive center proves that the concept Judas can substitute the concept traitor, correlates with the common adjacent concepts and acts as an effective way of expressing the evaluating aspect.
Keywords: concept, metaphor, metaphorical concept, adjacent concept, allusion-anthroponym
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Issue: 10, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: TOPICAL ISSUES OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND TRANSLATION
Pages: 80 — 83
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