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  • March 25, 2014
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PERSONIFICATION AS MEANS OF DESCRIPTION AND EXPLICATION OF CONCEPTS "WISDOM", "LOVE", "JOY", "SOUL" IN NOVEL BY HERMANN HESSE "SIDDHARTHA: АN INDIAN POEM"

Abstract

By the material of the novel "Siddhartha: An Indian Poem" by Hermann Hesse, the Swiss-German writer of the XX century, the results of personification study as an artistic-expressive means describing and expressing the concepts "Wisdom", "Love", "Joy" and "Soul" are presented. The specifics of their individually- author's perception by Hermann Hesse is detected. The individually-author's semantic accessions in the content of the given concepts are determined. The hight pragmatic potential of personification is revealed.

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Author information

Nikolai Alekseevich Krasavskii

Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University

Evgeniya Mikhailovna Zakharova

Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University

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  • Published: March 25, 2014.

Keywords

  • метафора
  • персонификация
  • фигура речи
  • художественно-выразительные средства языка
  • текст
  • контекст
  • эмотивный
  • ассоциация
  • значение слова
  • концепт
  • индивидуально-авторский концепт
  • концептуализация
  • когнитивный признак
  • аксиологическая картина мира
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • schema
  • artistic-expressive means of language
  • text
  • context
  • emotive
  • association
  • word meaning
  • concept
  • individually-author's concept
  • conceptualisation
  • cognitive criterion
  • axiological world view

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