Multimodal Representation of the English Conceptual Duplex HOUSE/HOME
Journal Title: Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна: Серія «Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов» - Year 2018, Vol 88, Issue
Abstract
<p class="western" lang="uk-UA" align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">This paper focuses on the English conceptual duplex </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">house/home</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">, its conceptual</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">properties</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">and means of linguistic representation; and examines the contribution of the data of its multimodal discourse actualization to the cognitive linguistics framework. In cognitive semantics, </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">house/home </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">proves to be a conceptual duplex constituted by various meanings of the polysemantic nouns </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>house </em></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">and </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>home</em></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">, and elaborated by the meanings of their synonyms. Within a conceptual network, their common meanings are arranged according to the domains where they are profiled: </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">human location / dwelling, family</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">. The study of their salience in speech (in literary texts) considers their contextual elaborations, and establishes groups of lexical-semantic variants</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">which are finally</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">blended together within a conceptual model of </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">house/home</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">. This model is a unity of an integral and two differential parts. The integral part is constituted by the meanings</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">: "building where a person lives (with his family)", "dwelling place", family life", "family"</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"> shared by the lexemes </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>house (n) </em></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">and </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>home (n). </em></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">The differential parts of the model are formed by the meanings which are specific for each polysemantic lexeme.</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">To analyse the </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">house/home </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">actualization in discourse the study adopts a broad perspective on multimodality. It relies on the interaction of verbal and graphic codes and reveals that these semiotic systems are non-isomorphic in representing various meanings of the concept duplex.</span></span></span></p>
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Інна Давиденко, Ірина Шевченко
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