THE IMAGE ELEMENT OF THE INDEPENDENCE CONCEPT IN AMERICAN DISCOURSE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24919/2522-4565.2022.51.15Keywords:
independence, concept, layer concept model, conceptual metaphor, discourse, corpus.Abstract
Summary. In the given article, the authors represent their mechanisms to define metaphors as reproducing means for the image component of the INDEPENDENCE concept in the modern American mind. The study is conducted within the layer concept model by A.M. Prykhodko, a Ukrainian researcher, on the discourse material (language medium of conscious concept actualization) that is arranged in a mini-model – corpus sample. As a resource base to make a sample, we use the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) because it is the most relevant and frequently refreshable bank of digitized American texts. This system generates a concordance list of the query “independence”. Here, in October 2022, we take 150 random contexts of the INDEPENDENCE concept actualization in American community. The resources are processed via the methodology of defining conceptual metaphors by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson with the metaphorization order parameters by N.V. Tatsenko – the spatial, dimensional, discrete, possessive, artifact, perceptive, personifying ones, etc. The sample analysis resulted in establishing 24 metaphors for the image layer of the INDEPENDENCE concept in American discourse: INDEPENDENCE is PLACE; DOOR LOCK; PHYSICAL BODY; FLAME; TASK; PURPOSE / PRODUCT; RESULT; CREATED OBJECT; DATE; SEPARATED SUBJECT / OBJECT; SUBJECT / BRANCH STATE; PROPERTY; VARYING OBJECT; COMPLEX OBJECT; RESOURCE / TOOL; MECHANISM / MACHINE; LIVING ORGANISM; HUMAN; PERCEIVING, FEELING / IMAGINING, ANALYZING, ADMIRING or DISDAINING OBJECT; MIND CONCLUSION. Additionally, further research prospects comprise check and revision of the obtained results via broader discourse samples from the COCA corpus. One can study the notion and value elements of the INDEPENDENCE concept in American discourse to reproduce its integral ontology. We may also represent the layer INDEPENDENCE model in Ukrainian discourse to compare world outlook from perspectives of Ukrainian and American populations. Besides, it will be quite reasonable to research the INDEPENDENCE concept ontology within the field or modus formats via respective methodologies.
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