ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTIONS-BLENDS "NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL-EVALUATIVE ATTITUDE - REGRET - DESIRE TO AVOID PERFORMING AN ACTION" IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Semkova Anastasiya Vladimirovna, Gorbunova Tat'yana Vasil'evna
Polytechnic Institute (Branch) of M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Mirny
Irkutsk National Research Technical University
Submitted: 20.05.2019
Abstract. The article considers the semantic peculiarities of non-prototypical constructions that simultaneously categorize situations of regret, emotional-evaluative attitude and desire to avoid performing certain actions. Non-prototypical constructions (blends) are analysed from the viewpoint of the theory of mental spaces and the derived theory of conceptual integration. Constructions-blends combine structural and semantic features of prototypical situations of regret, emotional-evaluative attitude and desire to avoid performing certain actions creating an absolutely new entity with its own characteristics not equivalent to any of the initial ones.
Key words and phrases: когнитивная грамматика, конструкция-бленд, ментальное пространство, эмерджентность, компрессия, cognitive grammar, construction-blend, mental space, emergency, compression
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