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Publication details [#12433]
Borodulina, Natalia and Marina Makeeva. 2009. An experimental study of metaphorical representations in the sphere of economics. Issues in Cognitive Linguistics 6 (2) : 17–23. 7 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Russian
Keywords
Place, Publisher
The Russian Cognitive Linguists Association
Abstract
The paper describes the results of an experiment aimed at discovering metaphorical representations of economic notions. The experiment involved Russian and French native speakers who were asked to interpret words and collocations used metaphorically in an economic context. These interpretations were checked for (in)consistencies against their definitions in dictionaries and analysed in terms of culturally specific features, axiological evaluations and their connection with the personal experience and encyclopaedic knowledge of the respondents.