Russian Journal of Linguistics
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics
<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief</strong>: Dr. Tatiana Larina, PhD (Philology), Professor</p> <p><strong>ISSN: </strong>2687-0088 (Print)<strong> ISSN: </strong>2686-8024 (Online)</p> <p><strong>Founded in</strong> 1997 г. <span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><strong style="color: #000000;"><strong>Publication frequency</strong></strong>:</span> quarterly</p> <p><strong>PUBLISHER: </strong><a href="http://eng.rudn.ru/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</a></p> <p><strong style="color: #000000;">Open Access</strong>: <img src="/files/journals/1//OA.png" alt="" width="68" height="25">. <strong>APC</strong>: no article processing charge.</p> <p><strong>Peer-Review: </strong>double blind. <strong>Publication language</strong>: Russian, English</p> <p><strong>Indexation</strong>: Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI), RSCI, Russian Index of Science Citation, Google Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, East View, ERICH Plus, DOAJ, Dimensions, ResearchBib, Lens, Research4Life, JournalTOCs, British Library, Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), Ghent University Library</p>Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)ru-RURussian Journal of Linguistics2687-0088<h4 style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #101010; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The right of authorship belongs to the authors of articles. The authors transfer the rights to use the article (including the use and distribution of an article in the Open Access) to the publisher of the journal on a non-exclusive license (Publishing Agreement (Public Offer)). At the same time, authors remain full rightsholders.</span></h4> <h3 align="center">Publishing Agreement (Public Offer) to Publish an Article in an Academic Periodical<br>'Russian Journal of Linguistics'</h3> <p>The Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba” (RUDN University), represented by the Vice-Rector for Scientific Work Andrey Aleksandrovich Kostin, acting under a Power of Attorney No 0036-03/21-163 dated 12.10.2021, hereinafter referred to as the Publisher, on the one hand, hereby offers to the public at large, hereinafter referred to as the Author, on the other hand, hereinafter collectively referred to as the Parties, to enter into this agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Agreement, regarding publication of scholarly materials, hereinafter referred to as the Article, in the Journal named 'Russian Journal of Linguistics', hereinafter referred to as the Journal, under the following terms.</p> <p><strong>1. General Terms and Conditions</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>1.1. Pursuant to Clause 2 of the Article 437 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Agreement shall be recognized as the public offer, hereinafter referred to as the Offer. Subject to Article 438 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Offer shall be deemed to have been completely and irrevocably accepted after the Author had submitted his/her materials by uploading those onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review available at the respective section of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Information and Communication Network known as the Internet, hereinafter referred to as the Internet.</p> <p>1.2. Pursuant to the Russian Federation effective law as applicable to compliance with the copyright to electronic information resources, no materials from any site, electronic journal or project may be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form, either in a hard or soft copy, without a prior consent from the Journal's authors and editorial staff, which may be expressed by posting a respective consent (open license <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC BY-NC</a>) in the relevant section of the Journal's site on the Internet. <br>Whenever any published materials are used within the context of other documents, a reference to the original source needs to be specified.</p> <p>1.3. The Journal is registered by the Federal Oversight Service for Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (RosKomNadzor).</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>2. Terms Used in This Agreement</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The Author</strong> is an individual (or individuals) whose creative labor has produced the Article.</p> <p><strong>The Offer Acceptance</strong> means a complete and irrevocable acceptance of the Offer under the terms specified in Clause 3 hereof (the Author accepts the Offer by submitting an application to the Publisher, i.e. by uploading the Article along with support materials onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review available at the respective section of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Internet).</p> <p><strong>The Journal</strong> means an academic periodical named 'Russian Journal of Linguistics'.</p> <p><strong>The Application </strong>means an electronic request of the Author addressed to the Publisher for publishing the Article in the Journal by uploading the Article and support materials onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review available at the relevant section of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Internet).</p> <p><strong>The Publisher</strong> is the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba” (RUDN), being the Journal's founder and publisher.</p> <p><strong>The Article's Metadata </strong>means any materials in Russian and English intended to be included into the Science Citation database as per the original version of the Article such as the Article title; authors' details (full last name, first name, patronymic, present employer of each author with indication of the postal code, contact details (e-mail) of each author; abstract; keywords; topical classifications: UDC or any other bibliographic and library classification, and subject indices; bibliography (list of references).</p> <p><strong>The Offer</strong> means this document (offer to the Author) to publish an Article by uploading it onto the site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Internet.</p> <p><strong>The Publication </strong>means the act of publishing the Article in the Journal.</p> <p><strong>The Journal's Editorial Staff</strong> means a creative team engaged in preparing the Journal for publication.</p> <p><strong>The Editorial Board</strong> is an advisory body of the Journal's Editorial Office.</p> <p><strong>The Article</strong> means a result of fundamental and applied scholarly efforts in the form of a scholarly material, scientific review material, scientific message, bibliographical review on specific topics of the scholarly study, and background information on Russian and foreign scientists submitted by the Author for publication in the Journal.</p> <p><strong>The Parties </strong>mean the Author and the Publisher.</p> <p><strong>The Article Requirements </strong>mean requirements to the materials published in the Journal's section named "To Authors" of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/about/submissions#authorGuidelines"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/about/submissions#authorGuidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</a> </span>on the Internet.</p> <p><strong>The Service </strong>means publication of the Article in the Journal as per the Author's application.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>3. Subject Matter of the Agreement (Offer)</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>3.1. Subject to this Agreement, the Author shall provide the Publisher at no expense for the copyright duration as stated by the Russian Federation legislation with <strong>a non-exclusive license</strong> for use of the Author-created Article for the purpose of its publication in the Journal.</p> <p>3.2. The rights to use this Article as assigned hereunder shall include but not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>reproduction of the Article or any part thereof, as well as its metadata in Russian and English in any material form whatsoever, including soft and hard copy forms, as an individual work product in periodicals and/or databases (whether local or web-based) owned by the Publisher and/or any other persons at the discretion of the Publisher;</li> <li>dissemination of the Article or any part thereof, as well as its metadata in Russian and English on any media as part of the Journal and/or databases owned by the Publisher or any other persons, at the discretion of the Publisher, or as an individual work product, worldwide via open access or by subscription without payment of any fee to the Author;</li> <li>making public the Article or any part thereof as well as its metadata in Russian and English so that any person could access the Article from any location and at any time of his/her choice (including via the Internet);</li> <li>issuing permissions to use the Article or any part thereof as well as its metadata in Russian and English to any third parties while notifying the Author by publishing the respective information on the Journal's site without payment of any fee to the Author;</li> <li>processing, including translation of the Article (including translation into foreign languages), and use of the processed (translated) Article in any manner specified above;</li> <li>any other rights, not expressly assigned to the Publisher hereunder, including patent rights to any processes, techniques or methods, and other means, described by the Author in the Article, as well as trademark rights, shall be retained by the Author.</li> </ul> <p>3.3. No territorial restrictions will be applied to the use of rights to the Article.</p> <p>3.4. This Agreement shall become effective from the time the Article is submitted to the Journal, i.e. uploaded along with support materials onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review available at the relevant section of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Internet, hereinafter referred to as the Article Upload.</p> <p>3.5. The rights shall be assigned by the Author to the Publisher at no expense, and the Article publication in the Journal shall not result in any financial contribution to the Author.</p> <p>3.6. If the Publisher decides to refuse to publish the Article in the Journal, this Agreement shall cease to be in force. A decision to refuse publication shall be sent to the Author via the e-mail address specified in the Application.</p> <p>3.7. The Publisher undertakes, throughout the currency of this Agreement, to provide to the Author the services associated with publication of the Article on the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics</a></span> on the Internet.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>4. General Terms of the Services Provision</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>4.1. The Publisher shall provide the services to the Author only if:</p> <ul> <li>the Author submits all materials compliant with the Offer requirements by way of the Article Upload;</li> <li>the Author Accepts the Offer.</li> </ul> <p>4.2. The services shall be provided to the Author free of charge.</p> <p>4.3. If any materials submitted by the Author are found in breach of rules and requirements of this Offer, the Publisher shall have a right to refuse to publish those.</p> <p>4.4. The Publisher shall not be responsible for any third-party unauthorized use of the data provided by the Author during the currency of this Agreement.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>5. Rights and Responsibilities of the Parties</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>5.1. The Author warrants that:</p> <ul> <li>he/she is the valid holder of exclusive rights to the Article; rights granted to the Publisher hereunder were not earlier assigned and will not be assigned to any third parties prior to publication of the Article by the Publisher in the Journal;</li> <li>the Article contains all the references to cited authors and/or sources (materials) that are required by the effective copyright law;</li> <li>the Author has obtained all required licenses to results, facts and other borrowed materials used in the Article where the Author is not a copyright holder;</li> <li>the Article does not contain any materials that may not be published in public sources in accordance with the effective Russian Federation statutory instruments, and the Article publication and dissemination will not involve any disclosure of classified (confidential) information, including state secrets;</li> <li> the Author has familiarized himself with the editorial policy and ethical principles published on the Journal website ( <a href="/linguistics/about/editorialPolicies">http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/about/editorialPolicies</a>) and the consequences of violating these principles, has advised other Co-authors of the terms of this Agreement and has received consents from all the Co-authors to conclude this Agreement under the terms hereunder.</li> </ul> <p>5.2. The Author undertakes to:</p> <ul> <li>submit a manuscript of the Article as per the Requirements to articles;</li> <li>avoid using the soft copy of the Article produced by the Publisher for commercial purposes and in other periodicals;</li> <li>while preparing the Article for publication, the Author undertakes to: <ol type="a"> <li>make edits specified by readers and approved by the Journal's Editorial Office in the text of the Article and/or revise the Article following the Publisher's request, where necessary;</li> <li>proofread the Article within the timeframes specified in the Journal publication schedule;</li> <li>make only such edits in the proof that are minimally required to correct errors made in the Article original and/or introduce factual and momentary changes.</li> </ol> </li> </ul> <p>5.3. The Author is entitled to:</p> <ul> <li>pass to any third party a soft copy of the published Article provided by the Publisher pursuant to Clause 5.4 hereof for the Article to be incorporated, in whole or in part, into a scientific information database or repository in order to promote academic or scholarly investigations or for informational and educational purposes subject to the Author, Journal and Publisher being properly referenced.</li> </ul> <p>5.4. The Publisher undertakes to:</p> <ul> <li>publish the Author's Article, in soft or hard copy form, in the Journal in accordance with the terms hereof;</li> <li>provide the Author with the proof of the Article and make reasonable edits as requested by the Author, where required, following the Journal's Editorial resolution;</li> <li>provide the Author with the soft copy of the published Article by sending it to the Author's e-mail address within 15 business days of the Journal issue's publication;</li> <li>respect the Author's rights established by the effective law, protect those and use best endeavors to prevent any copyright infringements by third parties.</li> </ul> <p>5.5. The Publisher is entitled to:</p> <ul> <li>carry out technical and literary editing of the Article such that its basic content would remain unchanged;</li> <li>review the Article and suggest appropriate changes to the Author, and elect not to publish the Article if the Author fails to introduce such changes;</li> <li>require from the Author and/or other persons that the Journal, Publisher, Author and any other copyright holder, as well as the title of the Article, Journal issue identification and a year of publication as specified in the Journal be properly referenced whenever the Journal and/or the Article, including any individual part or fragment thereof, are used by any of the above-mentioned individuals thereafter;</li> <li>publish preliminary and/or advertising information on the forthcoming publication of the Article in mass media and any other information sources;</li> <li>establish rules (conditions) for acceptance and publication of materials in the Journal. The Journal's Editorial Board, headed by the Editor-in-Chief, shall enjoy an exclusive right to accept and/or reject any materials submitted to the Journal's Editorial Office for publication purposes. No manuscript (tangible medium) submitted by the Author to the Journal's Editorial Office will be subject to return. The Journal's Editorial Staff will not enter into any correspondence regarding the rejection of the Article by the Journal's Editorial Board;</li> <li>suspend provision of services to the Author hereunder temporarily for technical, technological and other reasons preventing the services from being provided for the duration of remedial activities;</li> <li>suspend services hereunder in accordance with civil procedures if: <ol> <li type="a">the Article does not correspond to the topics covered by the Journal or by any part thereof, or the submitted material is found insufficient for the individual publication, or the Article design is found at variance with the requirements imposed;</li> <li>the Author is in breach of any other obligations assumed under the Offer arrangement;</li> </ol> </li> <li>introduce changes to the Offer as per the procedure established by the Offer.</li> </ul> <p>5.6. Unless otherwise provided or stated herein, the Parties shall refer to the effective legislation of the Russian Federation.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>6. Offer Acceptance and Conclusion of the Agreement. The Term of the Agreement</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>6.1. This Agreement shall become effective when concluded, i.e. when the Author Accepts the Offer by sending an application to the Publisher, that is, by uploading the Article (Article Upload), and remain in effect for five years.</p> <p>6.2. The Offer Acceptance constitutes an Agreement made in writing (Articles 438 and 1286.1 of the Russian Federation Civil Code) under the Offer terms.</p> <p>6.3. Unless any of the Parties sends to the other Party a written notification of the Agreement termination no later than two months prior to the end of the specified five-year period, the duration of the Publisher's copyright to the Work shall be automatically extended by the similar period. The number of extensions is not limited.</p> <p>6.4. The term of the Agreement may not exceed the duration of exclusive rights to the Article pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation.</p> <p>6.5. Whenever the Author assigns (disposes of) its exclusive rights to the Work to any third party, this Agreement shall remain in effect.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>7. Agreement Modification and Termination Procedure</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>7.1. The Publisher shall have a right to unilaterally modify the terms of this Agreement by giving a prior notice to the Author, at least ten (10) calendar days before such modifications become effective, to the Author's e-mail address specified in the Author's application or via the Journal's site. These modifications shall become effective from the date specified in the respective notice.</p> <p>7.2. If the Author disagrees with any modification in the terms of this Agreement, the Author shall have a right to submit a written notice of his/her withdrawal from this Agreement by uploading it onto the network electronic system of the article acquisition for review, available at the relevant section of the Journal's site at URL: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}"><a class="in-cell-link" href="/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://journals.rudn.ru/index.php/linguistics/author/submit/1</a></span> on the Internet.</p> <p>7.3. This Agreement may be terminated early:</p> <ul> <li>at any time by mutual agreement of the Parties; or</li> <li>otherwise as stipulated herein.</li> </ul> <p>7.4. The Author shall have a right to cancel this Agreement unilaterally by sending the Publisher a respective notice in writing at least sixty (60) calendar days prior to the intended date of the Author's Article publication in the Journal.</p> <p>7.5. The termination of this Agreement for any reasons shall not release the Parties from responsibility for breach of any Agreement terms during the currency hereof.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>8. Liability</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>8.1. A Party which has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement, either in full or in part, shall be held liable pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation in force.</p> <p>8.2. All the data provided by the Author shall be trustworthy. The Author shall be responsible for completeness and reliability of the data provided to the Publisher. The use of untrustworthy information obtained from the Author shall not entail any responsibility upon the Publisher for any adverse effects resulting from its actions based on such untrustworthy information.</p> <p>8.3. The Author shall take full personal responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Russian Federation law on advertising, protection of copyright and related rights, protection of trademarks and service marks, and protection of consumer rights. <br>8.4. The Publisher shall not be held responsible hereunder for:</p> <ol type="a"> <li>any actions resulting directly or indirectly from the actions of the Author;</li> <li>any loss incurred by the Author whether or not the Publisher was in a position to predict such loss.</li> </ol> <p>8.5. The Publisher shall be relieved from any responsibility for non-compliance with the terms of this Agreement if such non-compliance is a result of a force-majeure event such as an act of state authorities, including adoption of legal instruments, fire, flood, earthquake, other natural calamities, loss of power and/or computer network failure, strikes, civil commotions, riots, and any other similar events.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>9. Dispute Resolution Procedure</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>9.1. Any disputes and disagreements shall be resolved by the Parties by negotiations, and if the Parties fail to reach an agreement, these shall be resolved in accordance with the effective law of the Russian Federation.</p> <p>9.2. If any disagreements remain unresolved, the Parties shall settle those at the location of the Publisher in accordance with the effective law of the Russian Federation.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>10. Miscellaneous</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>10.1. Any notifications, messages, requests etc., excluding documents which need to be forwarded in original form pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation, shall be deemed to have been received by the Author, if delivered (sent) by the Publisher via the Journal's site, including by publishing those, by fax or e-mail specified in the Application, or using other communication facilities. The Parties acknowledge validity of notifications, messages, requests etc. delivered (sent) using the above-listed methods.</p> <p>10.2. Where the Publisher becomes subject to any claims related to non-compliance with an exclusive copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party during the writing of the Article or in connection with conclusion of this Agreement by the Author, the Author undertakes to:</p> <ul> <li>immediately upon receipt of a Publisher's notification, take measures to settle disputes with such third party, and, where necessary, join the litigation in favor of the Publisher and use its best endeavors to exclude the Publisher from the defendants;</li> <li>reimburse the legal cost, expenses and loss incurred by the Publisher as a result of application of a pre-award relief and measures for execution of a judgment, and damages paid by the Publisher to any third party for the infringement of exclusive copyright and/or other intellectual property rights, as well as other expenditures incurred by the Publisher as a result of infringement by the Author of any warranties provided hereunder.</li> </ul> <p>10.3. Subject to Article 6 of the Federal Law On Personal Data No. 152-FZ dated July 27, 2006, for the period from the conclusion of this Agreement and until the discharge of Parties obligations hereunder, the Author expresses his/her consent to processing of the following personal data by the Publisher: last name, first name, patronymic; taxpayers identification number (TIN); place and date of birth; citizenship details; ID document details; registration and actual location address; e-mail address; mailing address with postal code; contact phone numbers; fax numbers; and details of the employers.</p> <p>10.4. The Publisher is entitled to process the above personal data for the purpose of this Agreement performance, including for provision of information and reference services to the Author. The processing of personal data shall be understood to mean any handing (operations) with personal data, including collection, systematization, accumulation, storage, refinement (update, alteration), use, distribution (including transfer to third parties), depersonalization, blocking and deletion of personal data in accordance with the effective Russian Federation legislation.</p> <p>10.5. Where permitted by the Russian Federation legislation, the Author is entitled to withdraw his/her consent to processing of personal data as listed in Clause 10.3 by forwarding a respective notice to the Publisher. Upon receipt of such notice, the Publisher has a right to suspend services.</p> <p>10.6. The Author will, on a goodwill basis, submit his/her details (and details of each Co-Author subject to their prior consent) to the Journal's Editorial Office consisting of his/her: last name, first name, patronymic, academic rank, academic degree, job title, employer details (name and mailing address), work phone number and e-mail address for the purpose of its general publication in the Journal along with the Article.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>11. </strong><strong>Registered Address and Particulars of the Publisher</strong></p> <p>Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba” (RUDN University)</p> <p>Address: 6 Mikluho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation</p> <p>TIN 7728073720, CRR 772801001, PSRN 1027739189323.</p> <p>Vice Rector for Scientific Work A.A. Kostin</p>Metaphors across languages, cultures and discourses: A research agenda
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38054
<p style="text-align: justify;">This special issue explores metaphor across languages, cultures, and discourses, bringing together papers that reflect the diversity and scope of this research area. The aim is to foster discussion and exchange ideas concerning the role of metaphor in conceptualization, persuasion, and the construction of meaning. In this introductory article, we focus on the two main themes: (1) the universality of metaphor versus cultural variations in its usage; (2) the communicative function of metaphor in discourse. Within these main themes, we discuss case studies that highlight specific domains, including universal and cross-cultural variation in metaphor usage, discursive and communicative aspects of metaphor, and multimodal metaphor. In this article, we provide a summary of the contributions of our authors that represent up-to-date research on issues involving metaphor from a wide scope of perspectives and manage to open up a methodological discussion within metaphor studies. Finally, we summarize the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.</p>Aseel ZibinOlga A. Solopova
Copyright (c) 2024 Zibin A., Solopova O.A.
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2024-03-052024-03-0528173210.22363/2687-0088-37837Old English emotion is temperature: Cultural influences on a universal experience
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38055
<p style="text-align: justify;">In recent years, the study of emotion metaphors and metonymies has broadened our understanding of how people conceptualise and verbalise their emotional experiences. While some emotion source domains appear to be culture-specific, others are widely employed to denominate the same emotion. One of these potentially universal source domains, temperature, appears to be widely used by speakers from different areas to derive figurative expressions for positive and negative emotions. However, the systematic study of this emotion source domain remains uncharted territory, and numerous fundamental questions about the relations between emotions and temperature remain untouched. This study aims at approaching the question of whether, and to what extent, the motif emotion is temperature illustrates the existence of a universalist embodiment model or, on the contrary, it is a result of historical and cultural variation. With this aim, using cognitive semantic methodology, I will scrutinize the complete corpus of Old English texts (850-1100) to provide a fine-grained analysis of the expressions for positive emotions rooted in the source domain high body temperature used by Old English authors. Generally speaking, this source domain indicates negative experience, which is why it has normally been studied in the context of negative (and, in consequence, unpleasant) emotional experiences. However, as the findings of this study show, the existence in Old English of the conceptual mapping positive emotion is high body temperature challenges our previous understanding of temperature metaphors as a product of universal embodiment, thus contributing to the current debate on metaphors as culture loaded expressions.</p>Javier E. Díaz-Vera
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2024-03-052024-03-05281335410.22363/2687-0088-34603Universality versus variation in the conceptualization of anger: A question of methodology
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38056
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cognitive linguistic investigations into the metaphorical conceptualization of anger suggest that languages are remarkably similar on a schematic level, with intensity and control as two, possibly universal dimensions underlying the metaphorical conceptualization of anger. These dimensions, however, can manifest themselves in language-specific metaphors. Yet arriving at a definitive answer to the question of universality versus variation is hindered by (a) a relatively limited number of systematic, contrastive analyses; and (b) varied methodologies, with some papers adopting a type-based account, while others following a token-based analysis. We take up both challenges in the present paper with the aim of offering a more definitive answer to the question of the universality and variation of anger metaphors. We investigate the anger metaphors of a type-based analysis, focusing on dictionary data of anger-related idioms, and a token-based analysis, focusing on data collected from online corpora, in three languages: (American) English (2,000 random instances of the lemma anger from the Corpus of Contemporary American English), Hungarian (1,000 instances of the lemma düh from the Hungarian National Corpus) and Russian (1,000 instances of the lemma gnev from the Russian National Corpus). The lexical data were analyzed with the well-established Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). Our results indicate that there is a great deal of congruence relative to shared metaphors in both approaches, but this derives from specific-level metaphors in the lexical approach, whereas it derives from more schematic, generic-level metaphors in the corpus-based approach. The study shows that the full picture of the metaphorical conceptualization of a complex emotion concept such as anger can only emerge with the combination of the type- and token-based approach.</p>Zoltán KövecsesRéka BenczesAnna RommelVeronika Szelid
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2024-03-052024-03-05281557910.22363/2687-0088-34834The role of metaphor in creating polysemy complexes in Jordanian Arabic and American English
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38057
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most papers written on polysemy focus on sense overlaps and lexical ambiguity, yet studies that explore the possibility of establishing a polysemic complex and explaining how the new interpretations arise through metaphor are almost non-existent in Arabic. This paper aims to explore how metaphor serves to create new concepts as part of polysemic complexes through adopting Dynamic Conceptual Semantics. The target words are bidʒannin [make mad][1] in Jordanian Arabic (JA) and mad in American English (AE). An online questionnaire containing 15 items was sent to forty participants (20 JA speakers and 20 AE speakers) where they were asked to provide the interpretations of the words bidʒannin and mad in contextualized sentences. The AE contextualized instances of mad were collected from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which generated 5,168 tokens of mad (in the years 2015/2019). The questionnaire results were discussed in a semi-structured focus-group discussion involving 10 participants. We have demonstrated that when an expression is deemed suitable for all situations categorized under both the primary perspective of madness and a related perspective involving exaggerated descriptions of entities, a concept (P) emerges that bears similarity or relevance to the polysemic complex ( bidʒannin\mad ) to which the expression belongs. In such cases, we can consider the related perspective (P') as a member of the polysemic complex ( bidʒannin\mad ). Thus, this study explains how the same metaphor can lead to a complex of multiple meanings in two different languages that are not necessarily related to each other.</p>Aseel ZibinLama KhalifahAbdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh
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2024-03-052024-03-052818010110.22363/2687-0088-34555French political symbolism and identity construction
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38058
<p style="text-align: justify;">The present study examines how the language of political symbolism operates within the framework of identity construction. It focusses on the themes of sovereignty during the 2022 French presidency of the European Union and the national presidential election campaign. On the basis of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it suggests that, apart from purely linguistic features, extra-linguistic factors are also essential in order to convey a global view of symbolic rhetoric. The analysis is conducted according to an overall 6-tier model of figurative origins involving the parameters of personal background, political context, cultural history, reference, conceptual metaphor and linguistic metaphor. By applying the parameters of the model, it is proposed that the core of political argumentation in the corpus analysis is based on national symbols and the conceptual mapping they embody. The basic hypothesis of the model assumes that a politician attempts to portray the symbolisation of unity in accordance with his or her political background and personal biography. A political narrative is thereby created within the current political context using predominant symbols in cultural history. An over-riding factor is the role of referential points which may determine divergence in conceptual mapping. These features then lead to the construction of conceptual metaphors which can take on a particularly hyperbolic structure in the ensuing linguistic metaphors. The implications of the study highlight the important role of symbolism in political debate, its interaction with conceptual metaphor, the relevance of extra-linguistic factors portrayed by the 6-tier model, the link between cultural history and hyperbolic linguistic structures and political divergence in similar symbols.</p>Richard Trim
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2024-03-052024-03-0528110212210.22363/2687-0088-34560The explanatory function of metaphor scenario in the Serbian pro-vaccine discourse
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38059
<p style="text-align: justify;">Metaphor has been established and extensively examined as one of the tools experts deploy to explain, simplify and transform complex scientific discourse into the knowledge suitable for the audience of non-experts. However, relatively little research has been conducted on metaphor scenario (Musolff 2006, 2016a) and its role in this process. Therefore, in this paper we explore how metaphor scenario is used to explain Covid-19 vaccines’ safety and effectiveness to the population in an understandable manner in order to speed up the immunization process in Serbia. By analysing a data set gathered from various Serbian electronic news media sources ( NovaS , N1 , Danas , Vreme , Večernje novosti , Mondo , Politika , Telegraf , Krug ) published from January to December 2021, we aim to explore (1) how the three metaphor scenarios, combat, container and movement, may help simplify complex scientific concepts in the pro-vaccine discourse; and (2) how the conceptual elements of these scenarios and their interconnected relations are used for this purpose. The findings showed that these conventional scenarios manifest their explanatory potential by means of several sub-scenarios, whose conceptual elements establish useful mappings relying on rarely used components of source domains. The results confirm that metaphor scenarios may be used strategically by medical experts as an apt explanatory tool to simplify challengingly complex scientific concepts to the general public. The paper contributes to current research on the role that metaphor and other cognitive instruments play in science popularization.</p>Nadežda SilaškiTatjana Đurović
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2024-03-052024-03-0528112314310.22363/2687-0088-34958Politics metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian migration discourse
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38060
<p style="text-align: justify;">As the geopolitical situation changes, it is necessary to discuss how politics is structured by metaphor in the context of recent social phenomena, such as the European migrant crisis. This paper analyses the conceptual metaphors politics as war, politics as a game, politics as a trade, and politics as a theater in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian newspapers. The goal of this study is to establish to what extent and in which situations journalists resort to figurative language to persuade the recipients to view politics in a desired way. The paper aims to reflect on the use of deliberate metaphor as a perspective-changing device by journalists striving to achieve their rhetorical goals and influence recipients’ perception of the political situation. The corpus comprises 174 British and 307 Bosnian-Herzegovinian articles collected from August 2015 to March 2016 (247,912 words). Relying on Steen et al.’s (2010) model of metaphor analysis, the paper investigates the types of metaphor in the corpus, the deliberate use of politics metaphors and their communicative function in migration discourse - discussing both the rhetorical goals of journalists and the rhetorical effects on recipients. It has been established that the analyzed set of metaphors has a divertive and persuasive function in migration discourse. Similar studies are encouraged to shed light on how deliberate metaphors related to politics may have diverging communicative functions in other types of discourse.</p>Mersina Mujagić
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2024-03-052024-03-0528114416510.22363/2687-0088-34534Metaphor power in the context of the author’s opinion expression and perception
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38061
<p style="text-align: justify;">The article explores the relationship between the functional potential of metaphor and the expression and perception of the author’s opinion. Metaphor is considered as a means of implicit speech impact exerted both from the positions of its generation and perception. This paper aims to identify the correlation between the author’s opinion and various aspects of metaphor power, namely density (the number of metaphors per text), intensity (the ratio of new and conventional metaphors) and the metaphor projections typology (the ratio among orientational, ontological, and structural metaphors). The data for the study were obtained from a two-stage linguistic experiment. First, 20 experts in Russian Philology and Journalism composed three-part texts about Russia (its history, culture, and people), and were asked to summarise their personal opinion in the most relevant part. Then 180 respondents who were students of Moscow State Linguistics University identified the author’s position in the composed essays. The latter were analysed using metaphor-driven discourse analysis (MDDA), which included the identification of metaphor density, their intensity, and functional typology indices. Next, the MDDA numerical values of indices were juxtaposed with the data reflecting the author’s opinion expression and its perception by the respondents. The findings showed that metaphor intensity and density are related to the verbal message persuasion, since in 80% of the cases personal opinion was set forth in those text parts that contained the greatest number of the author’s metaphors. The proven relationship between metaphor power and the author’s opinion expression makes it possible to identify metaphorical speech impact, which reflects forms and degrees of speech impact in different types of texts. Thus, the results expand the theoretical and practical framework for the study of metaphorical speech persuasion.</p>Oleg I. KalininAlexander V. Ignatenko
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2024-03-052024-03-0528116618910.22363/2687-0088-34791Modern metaphor research in Russia: Trends, schools and results
https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38062
<p style="text-align: justify;">This article focuses on various trends and linguistic approaches to metaphor studies in Russia (2019-2023). The latter deal with different types of metaphors, process of metaphor formation and the use of metaphors in discourse. The basic methods of investigation include comparative, inductive, generalization and descriptive approaches. The article summarises new results in modern studies of metaphor on data from Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages. In the paper, we show the role of metaphor both as a trope and a cognitive operation in monolingual and comparative studies. Alongside these traditional areas, we discuss the results of metaphor studies in multimodal texts and corpora. Multimodal texts are frequently constructed on the intersection of mental, semiotic and semantic fields. Corpora, which have proved to be a convenient source of recent and reliable data, present another modern sphere of investigation of metaphoric potential in Russian studies. We discuss such important areas of metaphor studies as the interdisciplinary approach, pluralism of methods, critical attitudes to universalism, emphasis on cultural features of communication and discourse, and the blending of rhetorical and cognitive methods.</p>Anatoly P. ChudinovElizaveta V. Shustrova
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2024-03-052024-03-0528119020910.22363/2687-0088-35070Anatoly P. Chudinov, Edward V. Budaev & Olga A. Solopova. 2023. Political Metaphorology: Cognitive and Discursive Studies 政治隐喻学 认知-话语研究. Peking University Press
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2024-03-052024-03-0528121021410.22363/2687-0088-35203Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L.F. Nilsen. 2019. The Language of Humor. Cambridge: CUP
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