METAPHORICAL AND METONYMICAL TRANSFERENCE IN PHRASEOLOGICAL MEANING FORMATION (BASED ON ENGLISH SET PHRASES WITH NAMES OF PROFESSIONS)

Abstract

The article attempts to describe the formation of phraseological meaning, considering cognitive aspects of human speech activity. It aims at identifying the role of metaphorical and metonymical transference in phraseologization process. The object of the study is English phraseological units, with words denoting professions. The principle of conceptual compositionality allows us to determine the contribution of each component in the phraseological unit to its meaning. If the semantic shift involves a lexeme that is not the name of a profession, the resultant set expression specifies characteristics of a representative of this profession. And if metaphorical or metonymical transference affects the name of a profession, the resultant phraseological unit denotes a completely new object that associatively has some common properties with a person engaged in this type of activity. Taking into account the productivity of the research carried out at the junction of general phraseology and cognitive linguistics, it can be regarded quite justified to distinguish such a sphere of language study as cognitive phraseology.

Keywords

• метафорический и метонимический перенос
• фразеологическая единица
• фразеологическое значение
• концептуальная композиционность
• metaphorical and metonymical transference
• phraseological unit
• phraseological meaning
• conceptual compositionality