Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modern Approaches in Humanities and Social sciences
Year: 2023
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/7th.icmhs.2023.11.100
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Metaphoric idioms with the lexeme SOUL in Georgian and English languages and cultures
Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge, Rusudan Dolidze, Mariam Keburia, Sopio Totibadze
ABSTRACT:
As Kövecses & Szabó (1996) point out, An idiom arises from our more general knowledge of the world (embodied in our conceptual system). Based on this theory, idioms are conceptual items based on certain cognitive mechanisms, including cultural background knowledge materialised in conceptual semantic fields, including metaphor and metonymy. This paper aims to explore the semantic potential of idioms containing the lexeme soul and making up conceptual metaphors. The data have been taken from the Georgian and British National Corpora and electronic media. The methodology of the research was based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), Z. Kövecses’ theory of cultural metaphors and universal and variant models and M. Rusieshvili’s semantic-pragmatic model of conventional metaphor. The research was conducted in three stages. In the first stage, relevant idioms with the lexeme soul were identified and collected. In the second stage of the work, the data were grouped into conceptual metaphor models. At the final stage of the research, the identified metaphoric models were compared and contrasted cross-culturally and universal and variant models were identified.
keywords: CMT, cultural metaphors, universal and variant models; Georgian, English