| The first component of this terminological combination wagon, has the following meanings: 1) a) cart; trolley; b) baby carriage; c) factory truck; d) truck; 2) wagon (in England); b) van, caravan, pickup truck. In the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a wagon is defined as a heavy four-wheel usually uncovered vehicle for transporting bulky commodities and drawn originally by animals but now often by a motor vehicle (Klein, 1971). In Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language [Merriam Webster’s…2005], it is noted that the term wagon was borrowed by the English language from the middle Dutch as a result of contacts of soldiers in the continental wars, as well as due to Flemish emigrants who traded with the Netherlands. The main semantic components in the given above definitions of the term wagon are "vehicle", "four-wheeled", "heavy load". |
The second component of the terminological combination stage has the following meanings: 1) a raised platform for better viewing of something by an audience; 2) the raised floor in a theatre or auditorium on which plays or other spectacles (as operas or ballets) are enacted. In the English language, this term appeared as a result of borrowing from the old French < estage floor, platform for the performance in the XIII century. The roots of the French word estage come from the folk Latin language: < lat. staticum is a place to stand. Etymological analysis makes it possible to determine the general semantic components in the meaning of the common-literary words and the term definitions involved in the process of metaphorization. Thus, the common-literary word wagon in the formation of a metaphorical theatre term implemented its "immediate" meaning as a means of transportation. The term stage is used in its original meaning stage, corresponding to the main meaning of the word in the common-literary language. Hence, in the process of metaphorization, not just a term was born, but simultaneously a visual image of the stage rolling like a vehicle. |
