METAPHORICAL MODELS OF THE CONCEPT DEATH IN APHORISTIC DISCOURSE

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Gilt sózler: concept DEATH, aphorism, conceptual metaphor, linguistic worldview, notional component, image-bearing component, evaluative component

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The article examines the verbalization of the concept DEATH in English aphoristic discourse. The study aims to establish how the aphorism, as a genre of secondary reflective conceptualization, represents the three components of the concept – notional, image-bearing, and evaluative – distinguished in the model of Z.D.Popova and I. A.Sternin, and to identify the conceptual metaphorical models that underlie its image-bearing component within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The material comprises 45 aphoristic units by native English-language authors of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, selected by continuous sampling from authoritative quotation and aphorism dictionaries. The analysis shows that the aphoristic corpus redistributes the notional content of the concept, foregrounding universality and inevitability while contesting finality; that its image-bearing component rests on seven metaphorical models dominated by personification; and that its evaluative component displays a meliorative dominant, inverting the predominantly negative evaluation fixed in English phraseology. The aphorism is thereby shown to function as a mechanism of deliberate axiological reinterpretation of the concept within the English linguistic worldview.

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