Article

Name: The images of the language as a play in modern English phraseology and in modern English scientific discourse

Authors: I.V. Zykova

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The ideas of the language as a play which are formed in the culture of the English-speaking community and are rendered in phraseologisms of the Eng-lish language as well as in the scientific discourse are in focus in the present paper. A special attention is paid to the issue about the differentiation of the images of the language as a play that underlie, on the one hand, the meanings of the English phraseologisms under study, and, on the other hand, the linguistic theories of some English-speaking scholars. As the research has shown, there is a direct interconnec-tion between the images of the language as a play that are reflected in phraseologisms of the English language and the images of the language as a play that are represented in modern English scientific discourse. This interconnection is stipulated by the common conceptual basis of these images – the macro-metaphorical conceptual model VERBAL COMMUNICATION IS PLAY.

Keywords: language as play, phraseology, scientific discourse, conceptual modeling, model

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