Russian emotion nouns and their metaphorical uses

Abstract

The thesis asks the question on how metaphorical constructions are used with prepositions and cases for emotion nouns. A corpus linguistic study has been performed to see what the general metaphorical tendencies exists within the Russian language. The method of this work is using a Corpus (Ruscorpora.ru) as a data collection tool. From the data collected a correspondence analysis was created to visually show the data. The data was then interpreted.