LEXICOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF INDIVIDUAL METAPHORS

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Lexicalized metaphors are recognized as metaphorical uses of language, yet their meaning is largely set in a given language.

A lexicographic type is a group of lexemes with a shared property or properties, not necessarily semantic, which are sensitive to the same linguistic rules and which should therefore be uniformly described in the dictionary. I shall exemplify this concept with the classes of factive and putative predicates. Both of them will be narrowed down to the subclasses of verbs denoting mental states (not processes or actions).

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Abstract

Lexicalized metaphors are recognized as metaphorical uses of language, yet their meaning is largely set in a given language.

A lexicographic type is a group of lexemes with a shared property or properties, not necessarily semantic, which are sensitive to the same linguistic rules and which should therefore be uniformly described in the dictionary. I shall exemplify this concept with the classes of factive and putative predicates. Both of them will be narrowed down to the subclasses of verbs denoting mental states (not processes or actions).

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ABSTRACT

Lexicalized metaphors are recognized as metaphorical uses of language, yet their meaning is largely set in a given

language.

A lexicographic type is a group of lexemes with a shared property or properties, not necessarily semantic, which are

sensitive to the same linguistic rules and which should therefore be uniformly described in the dictionary. I shall

exemplify this concept with the classes of factive and putative predicates. Both of them will be narrowed down to the

subclasses of verbs denoting mental states (not processes or actions).

KEYWORDS

Metaphor, theory of metaphor, political language, literary language, and comparison language metaphor, figurative

metaphor, individual genuine metaphor.

INTRODUCTION

The fundamental tenets of the lexicographic

description of metaphorical nominations, present

issues, and future directions of metaphorical

lexicography are covered in this article.There haven't

Research Article

LEXICOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF INDIVIDUAL METAPHORS

Submission Date:

February 17, 2024,

Accepted Date:

February 22, 2024,

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February 27, 2024

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Karjawbaev Orazali Esbosinuli

Karakalpak State University Named After Berdakh, Bachelor Degree Of The Faculty Of English Linguistics 2-Nd
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Toleubayeva A.O

Scientific Advisor, Karakalpak State University Named After Berdakh, Bachelor Degree Of The Faculty Of
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been any independent descriptions of the metaphor

until lately. In the 21st century, a new approach to

vocabulary exercise called metaphorical lexicography

started to take shape. The development of figurative

and artistic lexicography, the development of

ideographic dictionaries, and the regular fixation of

figurative (metaphorical) meanings of words in

explanatory dictionaries were prerequisites for the

emergence of metaphorical dictionaries as a self-

sufficient lexicographic branch. [1:34]

Long before the creation of normative explanatory

dictionaries, metaphorics as a distinct category of

language units in the Russian vocabulary didn't stand

out. The lexicographical description of metaphorical

nominations was done within the framework of the

creation of normative explanatory dictionaries

(Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language,

Dictionary of the Modern Russian Literary Language,

and Dictionary of the Russian Language, all edited by

D. N. Ushakov, V. I. Chernyshev, and "Almost every

polysemous term incorporates metaphorical meanings

and shades. [2:65]

The criteria for placing words, including their figurative

(metaphorical) meanings, in these lexicographic

sources were gradually established by the authors of

explanatory dictionaries. Yet, the fundamentals of

their lexicographical description (order of placement in

a dictionary entry; the existence of interpretation;

grammatical and stylistic markers; and illustrative

material) are often the same throughout various

dictionaries. The topic of how metaphors are

represented in dictionaries is addressed ambiguously,

which is connected to several unresolved theoretical

problems in lexicography and semantics. The first

concern is how to tell the difference between

figurative meanings (linguistic metaphors) and

figurative word usage (speech metaphors), as well as

how to choose which metaphorical words to use. As a

result, it's crucial to employ the criteria for

differentiating related concepts in vocabulary practice.

N. D. Arutyunova, L. S. Kovtun, O. N. Laguta, G. N.

Sklyarevskaya, and others established the techniques

for lexicographically describing language metaphors.

The basic tenets of lexicographic description of

metaphors were developed in the writings of G. N.

Sklyarevskaya (1988, 1993), who established the

metaphor as a systemic phenomena of language that

follows specific formational and functional patterns.

"Since the dictionary cannot leave any of its

constituents outside the systematization, the linguistic

metaphor

has

already

been

experimentally

systematized and categorised" (Sklyarevskaya, 1993:

26).

Explanatory dictionaries (such as "Explanatory

Dictionary of the Russian Language" by S. I. Ozhegov

and N. Yu.Shvedova, "Russian Explanatory Dictionary"

by V. V. Lopatin and L. E. Lopatina, and "New Dictionary

of the Russian Language") continue to carry out the


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lexicographic

description

of

metaphorical

nominations, reflecting the characteristics of the

collective figurative thinking of native speakers of the

Russian language at the current stage of its historical

development. Explanatory and derivational" by T. F.

Efremova, etc.)in line with the normative lexicographic

traditions. The following are the fundamental

guidelines for lexicographical metaphor descriptions

of

metaphorical

nominees

in

contemporary

explanatory

dictionaries:

The

introduction

of

grammatical and stylistic marks; the presentation of

actual illustrative material demonstrating the

functioning of this metaphorical nomination in speech;

and reflection of various semantic and word-formation

connections of metaphors are all examples of clear

hierarchization of metaphorical meaning in the

structure of a polysemantic word and its

corresponding fixation in the dictionary entry.

According to the lexicographic metaphors description

approach, the accessible metaphorical dictionaries

may be conditionally classified into the following types:

ideographic

(thematic),

author's

(idioletic),

explanatory, and terminological. The complexity of this

phenomena and the peculiarities of the linguistic

substrate necessitate the formation of several

categories of dictionaries of Russian metaphors. The

most active development in metaphor dictionaries has

occurred since the turn of the century.[3:78]

Lexicographic metaphors here is the identification of

‘lexicographic types’, that is, groups of words with

similar grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, prosodic,

and cooccurrence patterns, and individuating words

within those types through ‘lexicographical portraits’.

As practiced by Apresjan, this often means minute

observation of sets of near-synonyms in order to

determine parameters on which they can be

differentiated into smaller and smaller groups. This is a

linguistically-informed lexicography, with the meaning-

text theory of Igor Mel’čuk and the

Moscow school

serving as the theoretical bedrock.

The lexicography of metaphors is derived from the

examination of writers' and poets' ideolects:

"Prishvin's Dictionary of Metaphorical Images"

(Turanina, 2007), "A. Blok's Dictionary of Metaphors"

(Turanina, 2000), and "Metaphor of Mayakovsky:

Dictionary. Tables. Commentary" (Turanina, 1997). For

instance, the usage of this lexeme in the metaphorical

context come after the primary component in

Mayakovsky's dictionary of metaphors. There are one

to thirty various settings in which the metaphor is used

in the dictionary entry. The list of metaphorical use

examples is sorted by date. Every example comes with

the "output" that the researcher needs. The semantics

of metaphors used in a variety of discourses are

described in dictionaries. Thus, metaphorical terms

typical of contemporary Russian political language may

be found in the Dictionary of Russian Political


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Metaphors. An examination of the definitions of

metaphor dictionaries revealed that contextual

bases

such as media texts, materials, programs,

etc.

and

explanation

dictionaries

which

list

figurative words

are the primary sources of the

lexicography of the semantics of metaphorical units.

Thus, there are 6,000 instances of metaphors in

political writings and the media according to the

Dictionary

of

Russian

Political

Metaphors.

Makhnitskaya (2003) developed the rules of the

lexicographic description of economic metaphors by

utilizing encyclopedic dictionaries on economics as

well as parts of scientific and media writings on the

subject. The process of gathering data for the

Dictionary of Information Technology Metaphors

comprised choosing scenarios that aligned with the

study's goals, adding the data into the database, and

choosing every metaphor. Words that were discovered

in the interpretation of metaphors and had semantic

links with the selected metaphor were picked, using

Ozhegov's explanatory lexicon. Additionally, the

Russian

Associative

Dictionary's

data

were

utilized.[4:98]

CONCLUSIONS

The analysis of existing metaphorical dictionaries

made it possible to single out the following basic

principles of metaphorical lexicography: fixing a

metaphor as a head word; complex structuring of a

dictionary entry due to the introduction of new

components (indication of the motivating meaning,

metaphorical model; interpretation of a typical

figurative representation, etc.); adding various

comments and marks; the integrative nature of the

description, including not only the interpretation of

metaphorical semantics, but also other information

(from history, cultural studies, etc.). The major

problems of metaphorical lexicography are: 1) criteria

for the selection of metaphorical material for different

types of dictionaries; 2) further development and

unification of the principles of the lexicographic

description of metaphor in different types of

dictionaries; 3) identification of new facts of

metaphorization in various discourses and their

fragments; 4) adequate interpretation of occasional

metaphors; 5) establishment of changes in Russian

metaphorical system at different stages of its

evolution. A synopsis of a few Russian language

dictionaries including metaphors was completed. The

National Corpus of the Russian language, contextual

databases, and explanatory dictionaries serve as the

primary sources for the lexicography of the semantics

of metaphorical units. A few issues that come up when

dictionaries and contextual databases are used as

information sources were noted, along with

suggestions for how to resolve them. Generally

speaking, we think that in order to fully characterize

the semantics of metaphors, we must employ a

number of techniques: systemic techniques (such as

the method of unifying dictionary definitions) and


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anthropometric

techniques

(the

experimental

research methods for recording real meanings of

metaphors).

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