Отклонение от прямоты морали в ключевых концептуальных метафорах XV–XVII вв.: от религии к философии (корпусный и когнитивный анализ)

Anastasiia A. Sharapkova

doi:10.21638/spbu09.2024.213

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Anastasiia A. Sharapkova Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2024.213

Abstract

This paper explores the dynamics of how the conceptualizations of deviation from morally approved behaviour are verbalized through analysing the conceptual metaphor of deviation from straightness/straight line. The core metaphor for describing morality is a straight horizontal or vertical line, and violating morality can be represented by a deviation from it. However, the verbalization of the development of ideas about morality and moral responsibility on a rich historical material has not been previously analyzed linguistically. Two lexemes “pravity” and “obliquity” were chosen for the analysis; and their combinability, semantics, and metaphoricity were examined on the extensive corpus of the 15th–17th century texts including Google books and English Historical Book Collection (1758 contexts in total). Studying the transitional periods in discursive strategies of describing morality as well as the development of certain types of discourse is of paramount importance. The paper aims to show how religious discourse has influenced philosophical discourse, not only at the level of the issues discussed like morality, moral responsibility, and moral judgment, but also at the level of language. The specificity of our approach is the combination of corpus and cognitive linguistic methods, in particular the study of metaphor. The statistical analysis with the general linear model (GLM) was carried out to verify the proposals made and to identify the degree of correlation between the type of meaning realized in each context and the type of discourse. The results show ideological, discursive, metaphorical, and terminological continuity between religious and philosophical discourse.

Keywords:

morality, conceptual metaphor, corpus analysis, quantitative methods, philosophical and religious discourse

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