Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2018-06-27
Keywords
- channeling,
- concept,
- frame,
- slot,
- semantic shif
Abstract
The article tackles the problem of conceptual picture of the world as presented in channeling-discourse. Channeling is termed as a peculiar type of communication between the human and higher spiritual beings. On the material of Seth’s channellings concept DEATH is described in terms of frame analysis. There have been singled out the peculiarities of the notional, actional, possessive and comparative frames with the corresponding slots. The concept is proved to undergo the semantic shift of broadening.