Особенности концепта ВРЕМЯ в ранненовоанглийском языке

Язык и культура. 2016. Т. 35. № 3. С. 6–16.

Kashleva K., Сорокина Э. А.

The article considers one of the main concepts in the English language – the concept time – in a diachronic way. The concept time belongs to universal units of thinking and to fundamental units of knowledge that causes the importance of its studying. The article studies how this concept changed in Early Modern English. It compares the concept in Early Modern
English with its state in Middle English and gives similarities and differences. The article analyzes the ideas of Early Modern English speakers about time. It shows what devices were used to represent the concept, involving borrowings from Latin and Greek, and the key metaphors of it in Early Modern English. It considers the representation of the concept in Early Modern English literature using the example of W. Shakespeare. In conclusion, the article assumes that the concept time in the period under consideration was quite similar to its contemporary state.

Keywords: время, концепт, time, история английского языка, лексема, History of English, lexeme, ранненовоанглийский период, cognitive concept, Early Modern English