THE EVOLUTION OF THE "TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY" METAPHOR IN THE RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURE (XVIII-XIX CC.)
The research of the "time is a valuable commodity" metaphor is conducted in the fiction works in the Russian National corpus from the XVIII to XIX centuries: it allows to study the change dynamics of this metaphor which reflects the evolution of the way time is valued in the Russian linguoculture. The data is viewed from several perspectives: the change in the number of the metaphor markers, the frequency of the metaphor contexts, the competition between the markers determined by the social nature of language.