THE LINGUOCULTURAL CONCEPT “BODY” IN THE DETECTIVE DISCOURSE OF TESS GERRITSEN’S NOVELS
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https://doi.org/10.30890/2709-1783.2025-42-00-018Keywords:
linguocultural concept, body, detective discourse, corporeality, somatic vocabulary, motif of the double, gender representation, sociocultural context, Tess GerritsenAbstract
This paper examines the linguocultural concept “BODY” in the detective discourse of Tess Gerritsen’s novels “The Surgeon”, “Body Double”, and “The Mephisto Club” from cognitive and discursive perspectives. The concept “BODY” is analyzed as a multidimensioReferences
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