CULTURAL FEATURES OF TEMPORAL METAPHORS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR USE IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The cognitive direction in linguistics, which has made a great breakthrough since the discovery of conceptual metaphors, could not but find its application in applied branches, including teaching Russian as a foreign language. Since the perception of time is one of the most important aspects in language learning, this paper aims at structuring the notion of this concept within the Russian culture with the proposal of the most important components that ensure the successful assimilation of the material. The analysis of temporal metaphors helped not only to reveal their typology in the Russian language, the relationship between the transfer of similar properties from one concept to another and grammatical form, allowing the teaching of metaphorical utterances in the most detailed way, but also the relationship between the metaphorical perception of time and cultural features of modern society. In the process of teaching, it is taken into account what type of culture students belong to, since for people from monochrome cultures, the perception of Russian-language temporal metaphors will be easier at the conceptual level than for people from polychrome cultures.