Речевая метафора как способ репрезентации образа России в современных оппозиционных массмедиа

Abstract

The article explores cognitive and linguistic aspects of genuine metaphors used in the modern political mass media subdiscourse. The author has analyzed 375 metaphorical uses, not recorded in lexicographic sources, singled out by means of continuous sampling of 120 publications (75,000 words), dealing with the characteristics of the socio-political and socio-economic situation in Russia and its position in the world as described in various materials published in 2017 in online editions of oppositional social and political newspapers of communist, national-patriotic and liberal orienta-tion. The methodological basis of the study rests on the idea of the metaphor as a cognitive and modeled phenomenon play-ing an important role in the representation of the linguistic worldview and in the declaration and promotion of views corre-sponding to the ideological preferences of communication subjects. The purpose of the article is to identify the pragmatic functions of genuine metaphors and the cognitive principles of their formation in relation to language models of metaphorization .

В статье рассматриваются речевые метафоры на материале оппозиционных общественно-политических газет.