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Thegeneraldomainsarefurtherproofofeffortsforgeneralisationandabstraction.
Thankstothemultiplicityoftheirtargetdomainstheyallowvariousphenomena
andprocessestobeunified,anddemonstratethetendencytobuildgeneralconcepts
withawidesemanticrange.Whiletheybelongtothesuperordinatelevel,theyare
veryschematicandsimpleandassuchattesttoatendencyforabstractioninthat
theydetachthemselvesfromconcrete,basiclevelimagery.
1.4.3.Thegeneralmodelofrealitytransformation
Themostabstractandgeneralcategorywhichcanbereconstructedonthebasis
oftheÇgvedictextisageneralmodelofrealitytransformation.Itshowshowreality
iscreatedandhowthefunctionoftheworldandhumanbeingscanbetransformed
intoasimpleschemaofalternatetransformationsofAgniandSoma.Inthismodel,
theconceptsofAgniandSomaarealmostdevoidoftheirconcretesemanticlayers
offireandplant/juiceandoftheirgodheadandratherrefertotheopposingaspects
ofinternallycontradictoryreality.Thismanifestsitselfincreation,inprocessesof
theworld(sunriseandraining)andintheactivityofthehumanbeings(ritualand
cognition)34.Themodeloperatesonlyconceptuallyandisneverexpressedinwords
explicitlybutisimpliedbythewayvariousprocessesandphenomenaarepresented
intheRV
,bothbythedefiningeventsandphilosophicalmodels.
1.5.Holisticconcepts.Thephilosophicalmodelsandtherole
ofmetonymy
1.5.1.Thephilosophicalmodels
Holisticconceptscanbeseenastheimportantstageindevelopmentofgeneral
conceptsinthattheyarebasedontheimplicitassumptionofsimilaritybetween
elementstowhichtheyrefer35.Holisticconceptsarenotonlybuiltviapolysemic
extensionofthesemanticrangeoflinguisticitemsbutalsothroughconceptual
blending.
OnecandiscerntwokindsofblendscreatedintheRV
.Thefirstkindareblends
whicharecreatedon-lineinonestanzaorinahymn.Thesecondkindareblends
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Bergaigne(1963)alsosawtheunifyingtendencyoftheÇgvedicmythologyandhasshown
thatAgniandSomaareonedivinitywhomanifestsitselfintheworld,bothincosmosand
ritual.However,hedidnotdiscussedtheambivalentnatureofrealityanditsdynamicswhich
areexpressedinthealternatemanifestationsofthefieryandSomicaspects;herathersawthem
astakingplacesimultaneously.
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Accordingtotheassumptionsofthecognitivelinguistics,thesimilaritybetweenvariousconcepts,
inmostcases,doesnotobjectivelyexistsbutispostulatedbycognisinghumanbeings(cf.e.g.
Lakoff,Johnson1980:147ff.).
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