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The paper aims to study the concept “Evil” in the book series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin. Linguo-stylistic analysis of the selected examples has been conducted, focusing on different manifestations of evil as symbolized by various characters. The extracted examples from the book series are discussed with a special emphasis on the nouns, verbs and adjectives, as well as stylistic devices that manifest evil in figurative ways.
In summary, the concept strangeness is, at its core, the condition of not knowing or not recognizing something. It is understood through the schema of RELATION and can be manifested along the two axes of categorization and distance in time and space. Since categorization is such a fundamental part of human cognition, entities that do not fit within their expected or agreed upon
categories are conceptualized as strange. Distance in time and space is the other key semantic component of strangeness, it contributes to the sense of strangeness since the object becomes unknown or unrecognizable.