LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT CORT ‘HEAD’ IN INGUSH AND RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article deals with the concept CORT ‘head’ in the Ingush and Russian languages. A brief description of the problem of studying the concept in modern linguistics, including in Ingush linguistics, is given. The main characteristics of this concept in the Ingush and Russian languages, its representation in these languages, as well as groups of phraseological units and stable expressions in which this concept is presented as a component are revealed. It is noted that in the minds of native speakers of both the Ingush language and the Russian language, the concept CORT is a partially structured figurative scheme of the concept CONTAINER, based on the oppositions of external and internal, containing and content. This factor has conditioned the possibility of metaphorical and metonymic deployment of the conceptual metaphor of the lexeme head, characteristic of both Ingush and Russian languages. Prototypical features of the container become the basis for the formation of the studied metaphorical model, which, in turn, objectifies the figurative meanings of this concept. Phraseological units and stable expressions with the component head in the Ingush language are divided into different groups.