The correlation between linguistic and conceptual worldviews: The role of metaphor

Abstract

The present work considers correlation between linguistic and conceptual worldviews, the role of metaphor in forming conceptual worldview, the development of semantic and cognitive trend in the framework of cognitive linguistics, interpretation of notions 'concept' and 'sphere of concepts' as basic categories of cognitive linguistics, basics of the cognitive approach to the analysis of conceptual metaphor. Metaphor allows structuring and comparing segments of national conceptual worldviews. It establishes association correspondence between spheres of concepts of cognitive consciousness of native speakers, plays the role of a tool to implement categorization and organized classification of human experience set in the language and represented by the linguistic units.