TY - T1 - What Can Science, Religion, Politics, Culture and the Economy Do? : A Corpus Study of Metonymical Conceptualization Combined with Personification SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335506 T3 - A1 - Viimaranta, Johanna; Mustajoki, Arto A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - The study analyses occurrences of Russian nouns meaning‘science’,‘religion’,‘economy’,‘politics’and‘culture’as human-like subjects. This kind of use isinterpreted as an example of a conceptualization described as PERSONIFICATION-WITH-METONYMY.On the basis of the fact that Russian examples work well intranslation into other languages, we assume that similar conceptualization ofthese abstract nouns is not completely language-dependent. The study isbased on the analysis of examples taken from Integ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages; abstract nouns; metonymy; Russian language; Russian; conceptualization; metonymy; metaphor; personification N1 - PP - ER -