A MULTIULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF TIME
A MULTIULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF TIME

Summary/Abstract: The concept of TIME has always been a debatable issue for every domain of science even if we encounter it every day. In this paper we made an attempt to contrast the way TIME is conceptualized in the Romanian, Russian and English languages, thus focusing on the List of Metaphors suggested by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The objectives reside upon determining the fact whether the metaphors detected through idioms fit the list suggested by the cognitivists or there are any divergences and the theory that works for the English language cannot be applied for the Romanian and Russian languages. In this context we have to mention important researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Ronald Langacker, Edward Hall, Anna Wierbizka, Elena Kubryakova, Valentina Maslova, Farzad Sharifian, Fons Trompenaars, Zoltán Kövecses and others, whose works designed new paths in the world of Linguistics. The methodology for metaphor analysis used in this paper is based on the ideas proposed by Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black: collecting examples of linguistic metaphors and then determining what conceptual metaphors they create and later use the results to suggest thought patterns which construct people’s actions and beliefs.

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