Abstract
The article deals with the phenomenon of synaesthetic metaphorisation in Russian and German. Synaesthesia as an intermodal phenomenon is described. A brief characteristic of empirical adjectives (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory perception) is presented. Primary synaesthesia as a transfer of a feature of one type of perception to another and secondary synaesthesia as a transfer of a feature of one type of perception to human psychological experiences, emotions and feelings are described. The article provides examples of primary and secondary synaesthetic metaphorization identified in the poems of the German modernist poet R.M. Rilke and their translations into Russian, performed by Russian poet-translators in the late XIX century and early XX century. An attempt is made to identify potential semes actualized by reference nouns as a part of adjective sememes, and to describe the change in the meaning of the latter. The article compares the use of synaesthetic metaphors in the original and translated languages.
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