Asymmetry Factors Of Russian Morbial Metaphors, Their Translations Into English And German
Table 3: The component analysis of an original metaphor’s meaning
| Language Unit | Decomposition criteria | |||
| original metaphor | the basis for a metaphorical transfer (part of the referential meaning ) | image (connotation) | the pragmatic meaning | new connotation |
| погибший | non-availability | calamity / disaster | inevitability, death | not relevant |
