JoLIE 10:2/2017

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UNIVERSAL AND LOCAL FEATURES OF METAPHORICAL NAMES

Tamara Vladimirovna Khvesko

University of Tyumen, Russia

Nadezhda Yurievna Basueva

University of Tyumen, Russia

Abstract

This article provides conceptual, etymological, morphological and structural interpretation of Russian and English metaphorical Place-Names. We observe the relationship of Place-Names with personal names, vocabulary words, topographical terms in complex with history and culture. Place-Names play an important role in intercultural communication due to their frequent use. Raising public awareness in cultural and historical content of Place-Names might enhance cross-cultural mutual understanding. We study metaphor embodied in Russian and English Place-Names to show universal and local features of particular categories and concepts. The paper pays special attention to the nominator’s creativeness in the process of landscape images perception that determines the structure of Place-Names. Language elements manifest the image of a landscape object and express the nominator’s self-realisation thus reflecting national mentality through cultural concepts. Comparative analysis of morphological structure of Russian and English Place-Names helps to find out universal categories manifested in such morphological processes as reduction, duplication, hybridisation and adaptation. Local conceptual changes in Place-Names may appear due to cultural views to social norms of society, living conditions of people, lands owning and family relations.

Key words: Place-Name; Metaphor; Culture; Morphology; Concept; Category.

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How to cite this article: Khvesko, T., & Basueva, N. (2017). Universal and local features of metaphorical names. Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE, 10(2), 61-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2017.10.2.5

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