ON THE METAPHORIC DEVELOPMENT OF DEICTIC VERBS

Abstract

The paper introduces the results of the study based on the assumption that the idiomatic usage of deictic verbs develops some additional semantic features which can be characterized as metaphoric development of their literary meaning. The paper will present how items with a definite prototypical deictic meaning develop the emotionalevaluative meaning fulfilling a pragmasemantic function of deictability. The research is determined by the necessity to study the structural and semantic features of different types of linguistic signs as well as by the anthropocentric approach according to which the language is observed not as an abstract system but as a background for the individual’s communicative and cognitive activity.