MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE

The article regards the use of military and historical terms denominating sportsmen in English- speaking sporting discourse. Sporting discourse metaphor acts as basic expression means on the one hand supporting interest to event conditioning its apprehension, expected social reactions and on the oth...

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Main Authors: A N Gritsenko, P V Moroslin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2016-12-01
Series:Russian Language Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/14512
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description The article regards the use of military and historical terms denominating sportsmen in English- speaking sporting discourse. Sporting discourse metaphor acts as basic expression means on the one hand supporting interest to event conditioning its apprehension, expected social reactions and on the other hand repeatability, recognizability of considerable part of metaphors realize standard character as one of the features of sporting discourse.In military and historical metaphors two different worlds are combined: “war” and “show”, for example the use of such denominations as “gladiator” or “armada” refers a reader or a spectator not to a war, but to representation of war in films, books or visual images.In the result of analysis done it has become clear that in English-speaking sporting discourse besides standard synonymic set - enemy, adversary, opponent, rival denominating sporting agents heading is used in sporting publication: Know the enemy under which a team is meant to play with.
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spelling doaj.art-912d444dcbc5460d8307b1fdfbf2554b2022-12-22T01:03:02ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian Language Studies2618-81632618-81712016-12-0104778114287MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSEA N Gritsenko0P V Moroslin1Международный гуманитарно-лингвистический институтМеждународный гуманитарно-лингвистический институтThe article regards the use of military and historical terms denominating sportsmen in English- speaking sporting discourse. Sporting discourse metaphor acts as basic expression means on the one hand supporting interest to event conditioning its apprehension, expected social reactions and on the other hand repeatability, recognizability of considerable part of metaphors realize standard character as one of the features of sporting discourse.In military and historical metaphors two different worlds are combined: “war” and “show”, for example the use of such denominations as “gladiator” or “armada” refers a reader or a spectator not to a war, but to representation of war in films, books or visual images.In the result of analysis done it has become clear that in English-speaking sporting discourse besides standard synonymic set - enemy, adversary, opponent, rival denominating sporting agents heading is used in sporting publication: Know the enemy under which a team is meant to play with.http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/14512базовая метафорамилитаристская метафорафреймагенты мира спортасинонимический рядметафора войныстереотип
spellingShingle A N Gritsenko
P V Moroslin
MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
Russian Language Studies
базовая метафора
милитаристская метафора
фрейм
агенты мира спорта
синонимический ряд
метафора войны
стереотип
title MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
title_full MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
title_fullStr MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
title_full_unstemmed MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
title_short MILITARY AND HISORICAL TERMS IN DENOMINATIONS OF SPORTSMEN IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SPORTING DISCOURSE
title_sort military and hisorical terms in denominations of sportsmen in english speaking sporting discourse
topic базовая метафора
милитаристская метафора
фрейм
агенты мира спорта
синонимический ряд
метафора войны
стереотип
url http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/14512
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