Место издания:University of Konstanz, http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/sala-34/program-sala-new.html Konstanz, Germany
Аннотация:The paper presents a study in the conceptualization of painful sensations in Hindi. The major part of the domain is constituted by lexical units drawn from other semantic fields which are metaphorically applied to pain. The domain of pain and unpleasant bodily sensations has been divided into 2 conceptual areas: the painful sensations in body parts vs. the functionality loss of body parts. The metaphorical sources for painful sensations in Hindi include four main conceptual types:burning, motion, sound, destruction (agentive and non-agentive). The basic set of metaphorical sources for describing the functionality loss consists of 2 main conceptual types: motion and emptiness, stiffening, twisting. The verbs constituting one conceptual domain usually have their own salient features that in many cases explain metaphorical shifts. Metaphorical shift may result in reducing the verbal paradigm. Telic verbs, especially the verbs of ‘agentive’ destruction and the verbs denoting self-destruction (usually momentary event) are to be morphologically adjusted to the metaphorical meaning of pain as the non-telic process. These verbs are much more often used in progressive aspect for pain metaphors than in their basic meaning.Another way to adjust these verbs to their metaphorical meaning is to use them in prospective constructions.