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Conceptual structure of pain in Lithuanian and English

Author(s) -

Jurgita Kerevičienė,

Natalija Zaiceva

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

santalka filologija edulokogija

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2351-714X

pISSN - 2335-7711

DOI - 10.3846/cpe.2015.262

Subject(s) - lithuanian , semantics (computer science) , psychology , perception , cognition , linguistics , cognitive linguistics , conceptual metaphor , cognitive psychology , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , programming language

Physical pain is bodily experienced and common for people in their perception. Still, people experience physical pain, conceptualize and encode it in different cultures diversely. The aim of this article is to reveal the conceptual structure of the metaphorical pain expressions of human facial parts in the English (British) and Lithuanian languages. The paper provides an overview of key principles of cognitive semantics, discusses the essence of pain by taking into account physiological and psychological aspects, concentrates on both metaphorical pain expressions and encoded stimuli of pain in Lithuanian and English. Finally, the conceptual structure of pain in the languages is elaborated

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