Space and activity interpretation of memory and memory operations by means of secondary nominationin the German language

The article isdevoted to a complex research of the semantic characteristics of German verb collocations. Nomination of the units is based on differenttypes of metaphors, which link the conceptual model of the world with obvious scales and forms. The conceptual metaphor is the basisfor most stable verb combinations; the others are shaped by evaluative and image-creating metaphors. Identifying metaphor, based onsimilarity of the object and image, and emotive metaphor are non-productive for the description of memory operations. Semantic structurehas been reconstructed as a set of 'semantic sectors'. We concluded that memory operations can be described as getting, storing andlosing of the objects, and also as goal-directed actions initiated by the subject, or as objects activity. Productive structural and semanticmodels analysis helped to pick out relevant elements of situations described, to show the mechanism of nomination. Interpretation ofmemory processes reveals ontological differences. Verb collocations model the situations represented, their structure and componentsrefer to the real world. For native speakers of German the main components are localization, source, direction and object. Onomasiologicalapproach is used to interpret the set as the field with motives and thematic codes serving as organizing centres, to arrange thecodes hierarchy, and to reconstruct the methods of memory interpretation, its processes and members. Spatial code is the most productivethematic code. The others codes are anatomical, personifying, substantial, religious, textual, technical, social and zoological. Memoryis associated with space, storage, environment and specific place, and its operations - with vertical moving of the fragments of thepast in memory space: in memorizing - from the deepest layers to the surface, in forgetting - from the surface to the depth, in remembering- from outside to inside, in storing data - conditional state of immobility. Collocations realizing the anatomical code includesomatisms, intellectual parts of the body are thought to be a subject, object or storage / space of memory operations, memory is considered to be an organ or an ability localized in a particular part of the body. Memory can be described by analogy with the outside world;its model is anthropocentric and anthropometrical. Memory and fragments of the past experience can resemble things, technical facilities,texts, can be personified and characterized due to correlation with animals associated with particular features by native speakers.Pragmatical components research proves that memory objects are values-bearing, and its operations are connected with emotions. Spaceand action memory interpretation is dominant in native speakers' minds.

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