Viimaranta Johanna. Talking About Time in Russian and Finnish

University of Helsinki, 2006. — 456 pages. — (Slavica Helsingiensia). — ISBN 952-10-3291-X. Исследование о том, что люди хотят выразить, когда они говорят о времени на русском и финском языках и почему они пользуются теми или иными средствами выражения. На английском языке. In this study author looks at what people want to express when they talk about time in Russian and Finnish, and why they use the means they use. This study introduces both theoretical and methodological novelties in the nature of material used, in developing empirical methodology for conceptual metaphor studies, in the exactness of defining the limits of different conceptual metaphors, and in seeking unity among the different facets of time. The theoretical background for the study includes two completely different approaches. Functional Syntax is used in order to find out what general meanings the speaker wishes to convey when talking about time and how these meanings are expressed in specific languages. Conceptual metaphor theory is used for explaining why the expressions are as they are, i.e. what kind of conceptual metaphors (transfers from one conceptual domain to another) they include.