STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF METAPHORICAL POLITICAL COLLOCATIONS IN THE ENGLISH AND TURKISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article examines metaphorical collocations, which are part of the political lexicon in the English and Turkish languages. The comparative analysis of the structure of attributive-substantive collocations in the related languages is given and the main structural and semantic models of political metaphorical collocations of attributive-substantive type are distinguished according to the degree of their metaphorization. A special attention is paid to the combinatorial properties of metaphorical collocations as well as to the identification of the dominant source domains of metaphorical expansion represented in the extracted collocations. The study is based on the units taken from lexicographic sources, the national corpora of English and Turkish and collections of news articles compiled by the author.

Keywords

• коллокация
• метафорическая коллокация
• политическая коллокация
• метафора
• collocation
• metaphorical collocation
• political collocation
• metaphor