Authors’ names:
- Zhanna V. Marfina – Lugansk State Pedagogical University, Lugansk, Russia
Abstract:
From the linguoculturological point of view, the evaluative metaphoric component is fundamental in the multidimensional structure of concepts. Evaluativity finds expression in the evaluative component of the linguistic unit (concept name) as well as in the combination of this unit with various attributes. There are no word-formation means containing evaluation in the name of the linguocultural concept KINSHIP. The interpretation of texts (consisting of one or several sentences) presented as illustrative material for idiomatic expressions with the term “kinship” in various dictionaries (academic, phraseological, linguocultural, etc.), carried out mainly by the methods of contextual and lexical-semantic analyses, allowed us to identify the evaluative metaphoric component of the linguocultural concept KINSHIP. This component is actualized through cooccurrence of the concept name in question — the term “kinship” — with specific attributes as a result of contextual and associative connections formed in such structures. The number of attributes traditionally collocated with the term “kinship”, including evaluative elements in their semantics, is small, which, to a large extent, can be explained by the specifics of the attributed phenomenon: an abstract concept with a sufficiently high degree of generality which can denote close relations (kinship), distant relations (kinship), a legal relationship (kinship), an illegitimate relationship (kinship), etc. The metaphoric component of the KINSHIP concept is actualized through elements that contain a visual and perceptually-based representation: these are paroemias with the “kinship” component, various kinds of clichés, precedent texts, etc. The most common idiomatic expression with the term “kinship” is the expression “Ivan, who denies his own roots” (or, literally, “Ivan who does not remember his origin/kinship”), and even though various dictionaries give this idiom a relatively nuanced definition, all of them agree on its evaluative metaphoric interpretation: “about a person who has broken with the environment in which he was raised”, which, in the vast majority of cases, is seen as something negative. The few paroemias included in the existing sources emphasize a special significance of spiritual kinship, treating the desire to be related to someone without any reason with notable irony.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-65-1-37-52 |
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| Key words | linguocultural concept; “kinship” term; concept figurative component; concept evaluative component; dictionary |