Metaphorization of spatial adjectives in English and Russian

Achaeva Marina Sergeevna

The article is devoted to the description of adjectives with a volumetric-spatial and parametric meaning on the material of the English and Russian languages in the aspect of their metaphorization. Metaphorical transfer is considered as a means of conceptualizing new experience, and metaphor is one of the ways of cognizing the surrounding reality, it contributes to the emergence of new meanings, while performing a nominative and meaning-forming function. It was found that in the process of metaphorization, the lexemes under study often lose volumetric-spatial features and act as units characterizing a person's personality, characteristics of a person, his mental states, etc. Adjectives and their derivatives in English are characterized by a higher degree of metaphor, which does not always find adequate expression in the compared language.

Keywords:metaphorization of meaning, adjectives of volumetric-spatial meaning, derivative word, objective reality