Using somatisms in phraseologic units of Modern English and Uzbek


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II.1. The definition of somatism
A person is conscious of a surrounding reality through perceiving it by senses. Different sense organs of human body carry out definite sensing functions. So different people's activities are fulfilled by means of their physical organs that are by their parts of body. On the other hand, human body is an accessible object of man's observation since his first paces. This unique fact promotes us to consider it through phraseological units containing names of parts of body. In medicine body
parts are called "somatika" from Greek "soma" - body, therefore the term "somatism", established in linguistics, traditionally is used to denote names of body parts. [1,103]
Estonian scholar F. Vack was the first who introduced the term «somatic» to linguistics. Studying the phraseological units of Estonian language, he concluded that names of body parts are one of the ancient fundaments of phraseology. The term "phraseological somatism" was firstly used by E.M. Mordkovich, who applied it to the Russian language in his article "Semantic - thematical groups of
somatic phraseologisms". [2,241]
The same opinion was supported by English scholar Logan Smith, who pointed out the enormous number of phraseological units consisting of body parts in English language and, thus, enrich and make English language more figurative. [3,150]
Somatisms - phraseological units that contain a reference to at least one part of the body. All human beings share this common instrument to perceive reality, so it is not surprising its influence upon language. To confirm if the body is seen and treated the same way by different languages.
In Somatic Idioms Revisited, Cermák (1998: 110) emphasizes the arbitrary relationship between the parts of the body that constitute phraseologisms, since the human body is the same for everyone and it is in itself is segmentated into parts, this leaves very little room for linguistic variation. Cermák continues saying that the body parts that are part of phraseology are used with their traditional roles and symbolism. The nose is an instrument to sniff, but also to feel the danger. The heart is seen as a generator of love, courage and other feelings. The author also speaks of the value of anthropomorphic language and how somatismos are proof of it. An example is the different meanings in the vocabulary of the human sphere based on metaphor and metonymy, as the leg of table, the head of the pin, among others. The body part acts as a mediator between man and the object nominated (Salah, 2003).
Uwe Nissen (2006) in her article Contrastive Analysis of Metaphors and Metonymies for the "eye", says that the thought arises from bodily experience, so the core of conceptual systems is based on perception and physical and social experience. Thus the human body is an ideal domain for the origin of metaphors, figures such as synecdoche or metonymy. The human body has a key role in the rise of metaphorical meanings, not only in Western cultures, but in all the languages of the world.



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