METAPHOR AS A MEANS OF REPRESENTING THE IMAGE OF THE CITY IN THE LOCAL TEXT

Abstract

Modern researchers refer a metaphor to productive functional tools for the formation of text space and cognition of the surrounding reality. In this regard, a functional approach to the study of a metaphor has been actively developed in science, in which it is understood as a set of pragmatic functions performed by it – emotional-evaluative, expressive and speech impact functions. Within the framework of the cognitive approach, the metaphorization models presented in the text, the study of semantic connections of lexical units and the construction of active semantic fields are of interest. In the studied local texts, the verbal-figurative metaphorical constructions constructed by M.V. Shcherbakov represent the image of Vladivostok and the panoramic picture of the seaport city. The cultural myth and the appeal to the reader’s consciousness makes it legitimate to use a metaphor to reveal the image of the city.