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Conceptual metaphor of Ukrainian journalistic discourse
Conceptual metaphor of Ukrainian journalistic discourse

Author(s): Liudmyla Odynetska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: metaphor; conceptual metaphor; conceptualization; cognitive linguistics; nature of metaphors; journalistic discourse; political communication

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the study of the functioning thorough conceptual metaphor in journalistic discourse in the early 21st century. Metaphor is one of the most powerful instruments of knowledge, conceptualizing and categorizing of reality. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to identify pragmatic communicative and cognitive specifi cs conceptual metaphor in the journalistic discourse of the early 21st century. Methods include: method metaphorical modeling of conceptual metaphor; method of linguistic description; method of conceptual analysis. Results. The article examined and described pragmatic communicative and cognitive specifi c of conceptual metaphor in Ukrainian journalistic discourse. There were characterized different types of metaphors that operate in the language of political communication. Much attention is paid to the metaphor with conceptual sphere of nature. With their help journalists/reporters portray social and political life of the country. There were characterized different types of metaphors of nature, metaphors of natural disasters, water and land; fi tomorphic and zoomorphic metaphors.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 67-74
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English