Anthropomorphous Metaphor in Economic Discourse: Receptive Learning by Russian-Speaking Students
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https://doi.org/10.30827/cre.v18.24570Keywords:
conceptual metaphor, anthropomorphous metaphor, metaphoric expression, communicative skills of perception, recognition and understanding of metaphorical expressions, series of exercisesAbstract
The article considers an anthropomorphic conceptual metaphor as an object of receptive study by Russian-speaking students of the humanities in the process of reading English texts on economics.
An interpretation of the concept of “anthropomorphic metaphor” is refined resulted from the sample analysis; a typology of anthropomorphic metaphors is compiled based on the contexts of anthropomorphic metaphors in economic discourse analyzed; a method of receptive mastery of the conceptual metaphor by Russian-speaking students in the process of reading special texts is proposed. It is designed taking into account the didactic possibilities of implementing the educational process in the absence of a natural foreign language environment. The paper presents for the first time a series of exercises for the formation and development of students’ communicative skills including perception, recognition and understanding metaphorical expressions in economic discourse.
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