Intellektuaalseid võimeid tähistavate sõnade kasutused intellektuaalses tegevuses eesti keele maailmapildis
The conceptual roles of intellectual abilities in the worldview of Estonian

Summary/Abstract: This research focuses on the meaning of the linguistic expressions of intellectual abilities in Estonian that are related to the activities of thinking, understanding and the use of memory. Through this the paper analyzes the worldview reflected in these instances of use. A suitable descriptive tool for analyzing these roles is conceptual metaphors. The aim of the research was to construct conceptual metaphors of the expressions of thinking, understanding and using memory through the notion of intellectual ability. The analysis is based on the Corpus of Written Estonian and the material of Google search. In the worldview of Estonian an intellectual ability is usually depicted as 1) an agent (a worker), 2) a container of intellectual processes or states, or as 3) an instrument which is used by a person, or 4) a room where a person carries out an intellectual activity. When talking about thinking the intellectual abilities were described by all of the above mentioned roles. When talking about the intellectual abilities in relation to understanding the roles of container, worker and instrument were used. When talking about memory the intellectual abilities were described only by the container of intellectual processes and states metaphor.

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