Towards the linguistic approach to ideasthesia (case study of the multilingual parallel corpus)

The article considers the possibility of applying term ideasthesia to linguistic material. This refers word combinations usually classified as synesthetic metaphors, despite fact that they do not imply multimodality, because only one words contains a sensory semantic component (e. g. bitter love, sweet desire). research is based on parallel multilingual corpus including original text V.Nabokov’s Lolita in English (1955) and its Russian (1967) French (1959, 2001) translations. work’s objective determine place context study synaesthesia examine structure ideasthetic combinations. Ideasthetic are being considered comparison with synaesthetic (both contain related different modalities) monosthetic ones components same modality). In total, 637 have been identi-fied, 73% which ideastetic, 20% synaesthetic, 7% monostetic. 465 phrases analysed. classification lexical groups interacting vocabulary proposed. 11 classes identified: anthroponyms (19% total number contexts), emotions feelings (17%), time periods (12%), qualities person (10%), discourse physical actions (9%), mental states (7%), characteristics sensations (5%), body parts (2%), toponyms (2%).