Abstract
The paper considers the idioms of craziness and madness. It is demonstrated that a metaphor, which internally in forms a phraseological unit, also affects its actual meaning by motivating semantics. At the same time, a model of inner form - that is, a combination of meaningful components common for several metaphors - becomes an instrument for putting the actual meaning in code. Techniques of coding are language-specific. The paper focuses upon major types of inner-form models of the idioms of madness. Inner form can predict the resulting actual meaning only partially.
Keywords
metaphor, inner form, idiomatics, semantics of craziness and madness, inner form model
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