Linguistic Features Specific To “Freedom” Concept In “Narrative of A Journey from Heraut To Khiva, Moscow, And St. Petersburgh…” By James Abbot

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This article explores the concept of freedom among the peoples of Central Asia through the lens of the travelogue of English traveller James Abbott, Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St Petersburgh during the Late Russian Invasion of Khiva: With Some Account of the Court of Khiva and the kingdom of Khaurism. Abbott’s journey to Central Asia and Russia in 1839 reveals political intrigues between Russia and Great Britain, as well as his observations of the everyday lives of the local population. Using methods of qualitative text analysis in cognitive linguistics, particularly Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) theory of conceptual metaphors, we tried to identify how language reflects perceptions of freedom, autonomy, and rights in cultural contexts. The paper highlights the role of bodily experience in shaping abstract concepts such as freedom, illustrated by examples from Abbott’s travelogue. Keywords: Source domain, target domain, qualitative analysis, milk fee, carpet money, conceptual metaphor, autonomy, empowerment, embodiment. the lifestyle of the local population in his diaries. Introduction: Several valuable examples of the attitude towards the concept of “freedom” among the peoples METHODS of Central Asia can also be found in the travelogue We conducted a qualitative textual analysis of the “Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, article to explore how conceptual metaphors represent and St Petersburgh during the Late Russian Invasion of cognitive states related to freedom and its associated Khiva: With Some Account of the Court of Khiva and the domains. The text chosen serves as a rich source of kingdom of Khaurism” written by the English traveler linguistic and metaphorical constructs, providing James Abbott. This two-volume travelogue tells the insight into historical and cultural perspectives story of a diplomatic mission undertaken by James regarding notions of liberty, autonomy, and Abbott (1807-1896) through Central Asia and Russia in empowerment. This study draws upon theories of 1839. Abbott, an officer in the Bengal Artillery, first Cognitive Linguistics, particularly Lakoff and Johnson's traveled to Central Asia in 1838 and soon became Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980). We also involved in the political struggle between Russia and incorporate elements of Embodied Cognition (Varela et Britain for influence in the region. In 1839, when Russia al., 1991) to analyze how bodily experiences shape launched an expedition against Khiva under the pretext abstract concepts such as freedom. By applying these of freeing Russian slaves, Abbott was sent to Khiva by frameworks, we aim to identify patterns in how the British government to advise and guide the Khan, language reflects mental mappings between concrete and then traveled to Russia as a British spy. During his source domains (e.g., physical bravery, legal authority) travels in Central Asia, he recorded his impressions of International Journal Of Literature And Languages 98 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijll International Journal Of Literature And Languages (ISSN: 2771-2834) and abstract target domains (e.g., independence, The cognitive representation of the conceptual rights). metaphors in the work can be described as follows: