The typology of forms of domestic imagery of ancient language vocabulary

This article focuses on the typology of internal forms of figurative units of ancient language, i.e. lexicalunits, capable of expressing content through visual representation of the image with the ability to produce a visual representation of theobject called. Figurative units are always an indirect category, characterized by semantic duality, which creates a visual representationcalled realities. The concept of the inner form of speech is addressed under the scientific direction of the Tomsk Motivology School, inwhich the inner form is defined as material and ideal components of word structure, including shape and motivational meaning. Asfigurative units are analysed from the standpoint of the theory of lexical motivation, the extent of their internal forms of typology isbased on the nature of the motivational meaning as reflected / unrecognised in the motivational significance of relations of similarity. Inthe Old Russian two groups represent figurative units: a metaphorical inner form of speech and non-metaphorical inner form of theword. Figurative units with non-metaphorical inner form, in turn, shared their words with the metonymic inner form, with the internalsymbolic form, with the visual-sensory inner form and contaminated the internal form. The primary step in the figurative category isrecognition of the concrete sense perception. Figurative units, the internal shape of which is based on a concrete sense perception, werenot uniform in terms of the nature of sensory signals as the foundation of the future image. It could be tactile, auditory, visualimpressions, or onomatopoeia. The symbolic nature of the inner form of figurative units is associated with the specifics of mythologicalthinking, characterized by indivisibility and imagery. Symbolization reflects the opposition inherent in the ancient way of thinking, andcombined with either a metaphor or metonymy, making the inner form of the figurative units contaminated, and the syncretic nature ofthe inner form predetermined the change of its type. Figurative units of the ancient language had mainly an explicit internal form, whichis associated with their derivatives. Accordingly, non-derivative words shaped the implicit internal form. The morphological andsemantic structure of the word in the Old Russian language can be explicit and implicit, and metaphorical, non-metaphorical, but in fact,and in other cases, it served as a figurative expression of the word.

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