METAPHORIZATION OF LEXICAL UNITS WITH SEMANTICS OF TACTILE PERCEPTION IN THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article studies the process of metaphorization of lexical units with semantics of tactile perception in the Russian and Chinese languages. The author specifies the figurative meanings of these lexemes and defines the complex of the conceptual spheres which are subjects to modeling with a support of a «tactile» metaphor in the Russian and Chinese language pictures of the world. The article attempts to prove that the identity of figurative lexical units with semantics of tactile perception in the compared language systems lays in the ethnic universalization of process of perception, and the original specifics of lexemes come to light at specification of lexical word compatibility, identical on basic meaning.