COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT “WIND” IN ENGLISH CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS RELATED TO THE SEMANTIC FIELD “METEOROLOGY”

Abstract

Modern linguistics considers the cognitive metaphor not only as a language tool, but also as the most important mechanism of human thinking, with the help of which the linguistic picture of the world is constructed, including the national and cultural specifics of understanding reality, reflected in each specific language. The metaphorical nature of human thinking manifests itself in the fact that it comprehends the world through the experience and concepts that are part of people’s everyday experience. The purpose of the study is to analyze the concept “wind” in English conceptual metaphors of various types, which is relevant due to the lack of research of metaphorical expressions that reflect such an important fragment of the metaphorical picture of the world as the sphere of meteorology. Conceptual metaphors that include the concept “wind” are considered not only in terms of the frame structure, but also from the point of view of the cognitive scenario as a dynamic sequence of events caused by a certain recurrent situation. It is argued that the considered concept “wind” in the vast majority of conceptual models is a dynamic element that transforms a static frame into a cognitive scenario.