ABSTRACT:
Migration causes changes not only in social, cultural or economical status of an individual, but and perhaps in the first place in his consciousness. Blending of several cognitive domains, language world views - examples of this we find in written texts - leads us to understanding of the processes which happen due to migration. We choose literary works as a field of our scientific inquiry, because language in our opinion is the fastest and most effective or even the only possible way to get access to human mind. It is common knowledge that a bilingual writer does not simply play the role of an interpreter translating the text from his native language into another one, but really starts to operate with concepts of the culture he chooses to live in. Consequently, his mind builds up a system of two constituents: mental representations of the second language plus background mental representations formed by his native language that influence the existing concepts and forming of the new ones. Results of integration of two language world views represented in written texts is what we are after or in other words the paper deals with conceptual integration and its verbalization.
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