Mythopoiesis of the Internal Body in Modern Western Culture

Student: Mekhtieva Nataliya

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

This thesis focuses on the main mechanisms of internal body conceptualization in contemporary Western culture. It highlights the role of mythopoesis as the most sufficient way to express interoceptive experiences. Mythopoesis is a complex cognitive and discursive process that results in the creation of the Inner Body Mythology. The thesis also systematizes current trends in metaphor studies. The study analyses cognitive, discursive, mixed and visual metaphors and their role in the emergence of the Inner Body discourse. The thesis is aimed at analyzing various sources of Inner Body Myths and provides verbal and visual examples of different cognitive models of interoception. Visual metaphor, as well as verbal metaphor, is regarded as an effective mechanism of internal body conceptualization.

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