Review of the Мonograph by S.G. Vorkachev “ Deep into Symbols: an Image in Language and Culture”

Abstract

The monograph uses the material of scientific and artistic discourses, lexicography and corpus linguistics to study metaphorical transfer and symbolization in language and culture, and also analyzes the verbal embodiment of the idea of sovereignty in the national heraldry of the former USSR states, Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, English-, French- and Portuguese-speaking countries.

Keywords

• anthropological linguistics
• heraldry
• code
• semiotics
• metaphor
• symbol
• concept