Оленяк, Мар'яна2023-11-022023-11-022022Оленяк М. Семантичні особливості давньоанглійських дієцентричних образних порівнянь / Мар'яна Оленяк (Mariana Oleniak) // Мова: класичне - модерне - постмодерне. - 2022. - Вип. 8. - С. 143-156. - https://doi.org/10.18523/lcmp2522-9281.2022.8.143-1562522-92812616-7115https://doi.org/10.18523/lcmp2522-9281.2022.8.143-156https://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26856Background. Simile is a universal category, the individual manifestation of which shows variability in the historical context, even within one language. The vast majority of research is carried out on the basis of modern languages, while the study of the earlier stages of their formation remains on the periphery. Contribution to the research field. These findings may help us understand the specifics of one of the means of Anglo-Saxon poetic language, which also reveals the peculiarities of their worldview. The material, presented in this paper, has not been analysed before. Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to develop a semantic classification of Old English similes, whose tenor is an action. Methods. The methods used in the article are as follows: the method of the component analysis; the method of the contextual analysis; the quantitative method as well as the descriptive method. Results. The use of simile vehicles is mainly provoked by the contexts describing movement and speech. Labour processes, which additionally imply the goal or the difficulty of the action, become simile tenors as often as behaviour that demonstrates an indicative state of the hypothetical situation expressed by the vehicle. Figurative description of immovability implies the cause or purpose / effect of a still position. The least productive additional meanings of the Old English action-centred similes are the intensity of an action demonstrated by constructions denoting emotional reactions and, sometimes, destruction. Discussion. Old English action-centred similes of equality focus the recipient’s attention on actions, revealing such additional meanings as the way it is performed, its cause, effect, intensity, etc. Most often the Anglo-Saxons focus on movements. The least productive are the similes that characterize the change of state or emotional reaction. This study can be a starting point for a diachronic analysis of English action centred similes.У статті розглянуто особливості семантики дієцентричних давньоанглійських образних порівнянь з актуалізацією додаткових смислів, що випливають із характеру взаємовідношення предмета і еталона. Таксономізацію емпіричного матеріалу здійснено за тематикою предмета порівняння відповідно до виду дії, вираженої еталоном, із переліком асоціацій, експлікованих у порівнянні. З’ясовано продуктивність усіх виокремлених типів розглядуваних образних порівнянь.ukобразне порівняннядіяситуаціясемантикасмислімплікаціястаттяsimileactionsituationsemanticsmeaningimplicationArticle