Zoometaphors As A Linguistic Way to Characterize A Human Being

Аннотация

In modern linguistics there is a great number of classifications of usual metaphors. In this article we will consider zoometaphor as a way of linguistic characterization of a human being on the basis of various images. The essence of metaphor lies in associative identification, which makes it possible to relate phenomena of different subject areas by means of a nominative act. In zoometaphor, on the one hand, anthropomorphic properties are attributed to the image of an animal, on the other hand, this image is projected onto a person, to whom zoomorphic characteristics are attributed. The aim of the study is to identify common and national-cultural features in the meanings of zoometaphors in Uzbek and Korean languages and to establish the peculiarities of expressing knowledge about the world. Keywords: Zoometaphor, anthropomorphic, linguistic, cognitive, content, image, zoomorphism. associative level and plunge into the thesaurus”. Introduction: The basis of a zoometaphor is a stereotypical image reflecting a vivid feature that is the Since zoometaphor is one of the ways of encoding most characteristic of a given animal, easily national-cultural information, let us consider the comprehended in the minds of speakers. The names of concept of the cultural code itself in language. animals are very often used to determine the The concept of “code” came to linguistics from the evaluative properties of a person and his behavior: fox scientific and technical environment (Morse code, - cunning, donkey - stubborn, lion - strong, hare - genetic code). The essence of the code is to decipher coward. Y.N. Karaulov believes that the reasons for artificial languages. linguistic imagery should be sought not in semantics, According to S.I. Ozhegov, a code is “a system of but in the thesaurus, in the knowledge system. In his conventional designations, signals that transmit opinion, in linguistic imagery we find “a frozen information”. epistemological effort, an instant fixation of the act of transition from one field in the thesaurus (for example, METHOD ‘wild animals, dangerous’) to another (“human In modern linguistic studies the code is considered as properties”). But in order for such a transition to be an important concept of linguoculturology. The rules of possible and to take place, it is necessary to possess the its reading “are set by culture: cultural chronotope, knowledge that the snake is insidious, the hare, say, is cultural competence of the interpreter”. Consequently, coward, fearful, tends to flee from danger, the bear is the code is developed and functions in culture. In this clumsy but strong, and the dove is gentle and harmless. case, we speak of the existence of “cultural codes” This transition does not belong to the verbal- (cultural codes). D. B. Gudkov, V. V. Krasnykh associative level, it is the generation of knowledge. Any emphasize that the “culture code” is a transmission of image can be transferred to the semantic level, can be material and spiritual experience (achievements, moral verbalized, can reveal its essence, its cognitive and precepts) developed by mankind during the period of emotional content by constructing an appropriate text, real history, i.e. history confirmed materially and but the image owes its origin and emergence only to having evidence (artifacts and descriptions, letters, knowledge, it appears when we leave the superficial- American Journal Of Philological Sciences 102 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) chronicles, diaries, travelers' reviews). - ‘a person who has strayed from the right path of life’ and sheep - ‘about a timid, unresponsive person’; The concept of cultural code is used as a key to Buridan donkey - ‘extremely indecisive person, understanding the cultural picture of the world. A hesitating in the choice between two equivalent cultural code is a key to understanding a given type of decisions, etc.’ and donkey - ‘an indecisive person, culture; unique cultural features inherited by peoples hesitating in the choice between two equivalent from their ancestors; it is information encoded in some decisions, etc.’ and donkey - ‘a person who has strayed form that allows to identify a culture. A cultural code from the right path of life’ and sheep - ‘about a timid, defines a set of images that are associated with some unresponsive person’. etc.” and donkey - ‘a foolish, set of stereotypes in consciousness. It is the cultural stupid, stubborn person’. unconscious - not what is said or clearly realized, but what is hidden from understanding but manifested in RESULTS AND DISCUSSION actions. The cultural code of a nation helps to Zoomorphisms can occur both as separate lexemes understand behavioral reactions. (Uzbek: crow, donkey, bear, eagle; Korean: 곰 (bear), Cultural language is the totality of all sign ways of verbal 물소 (buffalo), 돼지 (pig), 여우 (fox); and as (verbal) and non-verbal communication by means of