TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EMOTION METAPHORS IN BELARUSIAN AND ENGLISH

The article provides typological and contrastive analysis of emotion meta- phors in Belarusian and English. Metaphorical representation of emotions is implemented by conventional and novel metaphors which name different emotions and describe their dura- tion, intensity, quality, and orientation features. Specifi c features of emotion metaphors are determined by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. For Belarusian it is common to approve of greater intimacy between interlocutors and to identify a feeling or emotion with a person. English metaphors reveal the tendency to disapprove of excessive expression of feelings and to distance emotional experience