The special aspects of concept TIME in early modern English
The article considers one of the main concepts in the English language - the concept time - in a diachronic way. The concept time belongs to universal units of thinking and to fundamental units of knowledge that causes the importance of its studying. The article studies how this concept changed in Early Modern English. It compares the concept in Early Modern English with its state in Middle English and gives similarities and differences. The article analyzes the ideas of Early Modern English speakers about time. It shows what devices were used to represent the concept, involving borrowings from Latin and Greek, and the key metaphors of it in Early Modern English. It considers the representation of the concept in Early Modern English literature using the example of W. Shakespeare. In conclusion, the article assumes that the concept time in the period under consideration was quite similar to its contemporary state.
Keywords
концепт,
время,
история английского языка,
ранненовоанглийский язык,
лексема,
concept,
time,
the history of the English language,
Early Modern English,
lexemeAuthors
| Kashleva K.K. | Moscow Region State University | address.for.job@gmail.com |
| Sorokina E.A. | Moscow Region State University | ellasor@mail.ru |
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