Asymmetry Factors Of Russian Morbial Metaphors, Their Translations Into English And German
Table 9: 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 |
| зараза | sudden destruction | disease | doomness | not relevant |
