Metaforična upodobitev jaza v angleškem in ruskem terapevtskem diskurzu samopomoči

Božič, Mihela (author), Uhlik, Mladen (mentor), Lipovšek, Frančiška (mentor)

V pričujočem magistrskem delu raziskujem koncept jaza, kot je upodobljen s pomočjo konceptualne metafore v angleškem in ruskem diskurzu samopomoči znotraj literature za samopomoč. Pojem samopomoči je v delu predstavljen kot pojav globalnih razsežnosti, ki je vplival tako na kulturo kot na jezik, s katerim izražamo svoje sebstvo ter identiteto. V delu opisujem razvoj kulture in literature samopomoči v Združenih državah ter Rusiji, pri čemer vsako kulturo obravnavam posebej. Empirični del magistrske naloge je namenjen analizi angleškega in ruskega diskurza samopomoči, ki je bila izvedena na podlagi korpusa, sestavljenega iz primerov 360 konceptualnih metafor, ki sem jih ročno izpisala iz šestih priročnikov za samopomoč (3 angleški in 3 ruski). S pomočjo pridobljenih rezultatov ugotavljam, v kolikšni meri se angleška in ruska metaforična upodobitev jaza ujemata in predstavim podobnosti ter razlike med njima.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: samopomoč, konceptualna metafora, jaz, diskurz, angleški, ruski, analiza
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2019
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-112040
• Publication date in RUL: 21.10.2019

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: The metaphorical representation of the self in English and Russian self-help therapeutic discourses

Abstract

This Master's thesis investigates the ways in which the concept of the self is represented in the English and Russian therapeutic discourses of self-help literature by means of conceptual metaphor. Viewing self-help as a global phenomenon, the study examines the influence of self-help culture on the expression of selfhood and identity. It individually deals with the development of self-help culture and literature in the United States and Russia. The empirical part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis of English and Russian self-help discourses and is based on a corpus comprised of 360 conceptual metaphor examples which were manually extracted from six self-help books (3 English and 3 Russian). The thesis discovers the extent to which the English and Russian metaphorical representations of the self coincide, and lays out the similarities and differences between them.

• Keywords: self-help, conceptual metaphor, self, discourse, English, Russian, analysis