THE ROLE OF COGNITIVE METAPHOR IN LANGUAGE

Each language is unique and has its own characteristics.  A person who speaks any foreign language uses a diversity of lexical units, uses various grammatical and phonetic laws of the language.  Withal, speakers often find themselves helpless in the face of the simplest speech situations that require linguistic behavior corresponding to a specific communicative strategy.  There are paradoxes of speech conversation : a person from time to time feels a complete incapability to verbal interaction with other members of the same language community.  And the point is ignorance of the language - the point is usually the inability to use it correctly, that is, the incapability to “place” oneself in a particular speech situation.