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What can science, religion, politics, culture and the economy do? A corpus study of metonymical conceptualization combined with personification

Scando-Slavica. 2020. Vol. 66. No. 1. P. 71–85.
Viimaranta J., Mustajoki A.

The study analyses occurrences of Russian nouns meaning‘science’,‘religion’,‘economy’,‘politics’and‘culture’as human-like subjects. This kind of use isinterpreted as an example of a conceptualization described as PERSONIFICATION-WITH-METONYMY.On the basis of the fact that Russian examples work well intranslation into other languages, we assume that similar conceptualization ofthese abstract nouns is not completely language-dependent. The study isbased on the analysis of examples taken from Integrum, a large non-annotated Russian corpus. The large number of examples found in newspapertexts and documented both quantitatively and qualitatively suggests thatsuch non-annotated corpora can be used for studying conceptualization.

Research target: Philology and Linguistics
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Keywords: субъектметафораsubjectкорпусная лингвистикаметонимияcorpus linguisticsmetonymyагенсmetaphorisationкорпусные подходы к изучению языкаcorpus-based analysistypes of agents
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