Abstract

The article discloses the axiological potential of the qualitative metaphor of time on the example of emotive prose and poetry of German-speaking authors. Time as an abstract notion is rendered metaphorically. Metaphor, taken as an image, is a universal pattern that is used to form emotional and evaluative categories. It encompasses an image representation, evaluation information and attitude expression, both positive and negative. There is an attempt to assess the correlation between ameliorative and pejorative evaluation of time in poetry and emotive prose discourse in the German-language literature. However, besides positive and negative modes, evaluation may also have some other semantic features, which can contribute to its more detailed classification. We analyzed the possibility of using the classification by N.D. Arutyunova to identify and distribute these semantic features among the suggested sets.

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